From: Robert Martin-Legene <robert@dknet.dk> To: Piet Beertema <Piet.Beertema@cwi.nl> Cc: dns-wg@ripe.net

On Fri, 15 Sep 1995, Piet Beertema wrote:

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- In the init file one could still see where a given root server is located, by comparing the A record with the A records of the root servers.

A bit complicated.. If the in-addr.arpa didn't map to the root-servers.net zone, but to the old name you could easily use host -A e.root-servers.net and find the old "location". Why they didn't do that I'm not really sure.=

I suppose it is mainly because the "old location" can have several IP addresses only one of which is defined in the root-servers.net domain (ns.nasa.gov is such an example). This can probably allow for security features such as packet filtering on destination address. By the way, PSI.NET has solved the problem in a similar manner to what you suggest, but the other way round: c.psi.net CNAME c.root-servers.net c.root-servers.net A 192.33.4.12 Janos Zsako