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Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 16:06:08 +0200
From: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>
To: benjamin@seattleFenix.net
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Subject: Re: Windows as opposed to Other OS's
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On Sun, 15 Sep 2002 06:47:46 -0700
Benjamin Krueger <benjamin@seattleFenix.net> wrote:

>   I just spent 25 minutes googling for an authoritative list of root
>   nameservers
> and what operating systems and platforms they run on, however I
> couldn't find any such list. The only machine I could find was
> A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET which lives in VA with NSI and runs on an IBM S80
> RS/6000 running AIX. From what I gleaned of the gTLD documentation,
> all of the root nameservers run a form of UNIX on various hardware,
> and all of them run BIND.

IIRC, the root servers used to run on Sun hardware (i.e. Solaris) but
were switched to IBM a few years ago. All of them run a customized
version of BIND. It's a case where we won't see MS software any time
soon (hopefully).

Cheers,
-- 
        Miguel Mendez - flynn@energyhq.homeip.net
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        NetBSD :: Unix without hype

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