On 24 Apr 2018, at 15:51, Job Snijders <job@ntt.net> wrote:
At least this is a good sign: https://github.com/search?q=ns-v6.ripe.net&type=Code
Thanks Job. Though I wasn’t thinking (or caring) about github crapware. I was thinking about stuff that might have been written for internal use -- say at an ISP -- and would only show up whenever these scripts or whatever made queries for ns-v6.ripe.net. As I’m sure we all realise, there’s a long tail of legacy cruft out there. So even when some name gets removed from the DNS (or isn't found in github), that doesn’t necessarily mean that the name is no longer used. For instance, there’s still traffic going to IP addresses for root servers that were renumbered years ago. Admittedly that’s not quite the same thing because the names of the root servers in question haven’t gone away, but it illustrates the point I was trying to make.