Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 17:17:54 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> Cc: benjamin@seattleFenix.net, anthony@freebie.atkielski.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows as opposed to Other OS's Message-ID: <20020915161754.GA70355@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20020915160608.4ecea72e.flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> References: <20020915121826.55453.qmail@web12908.mail.yahoo.com> <016b01c25cb5$996d0550$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20020915064746.G19204@mail.seattleFenix.net> <20020915160608.4ecea72e.flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>
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On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 04:06:08PM +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote: > 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). Nope. The root servers run on a variety of hardware and OS's as per http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2870.txt: 2.1 It would be short-sighted of this document to specify particular hardware, operating systems, or name serving software. Variations in these areas would actually add overall robustness. For instance: http://www.isc.org/services/public/F-root-server.html Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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