Re: Debian.Org and nameservers

[Bjorn Isaksson <bjorn@educ.umu.se>]

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

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