On 10 May 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > [debian.org has loads of nameservers]
> > Another thing, according to Internic only 3 servers have been registered > as nameservers for debian.org: > > # host -t ns debian.org a.root-servers.net > debian.org NS BUOY.COM > debian.org NS WWW2.BUOY.COM > debian.org NS VA.debian.org > > So the nameservers at cistron, fuller, hands, waw and ldsol are of > questionable use as well. > Not that there is anything wrong with this per se. The extra nameservers could have loads of resolvers using them benefiting from fresh data or they could be feeding internal/firewalled networks. Anyway, the fact is illustrated by this litte hack: http://www.foobar.tm/dns/dnsbajaj.cgi The other way around -- having internic delegating a domain to non- authoritative nameservers -- is a bad thing, making the servers go an extra round to get the data. Using the above tool shows that this is the case for both debian.com and debian.net. Not that I know if those have anything much to do with debian.org? /Bjorn - - - - umop apisdn 'sdoo - - - - Bjorn Isaksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>