Whatever happened to alternative root servers?
Whatever happened to alternative root servers?
Posted Oct 8, 2003 20:10 UTC (Wed) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)Parent article: VeriSign fends off critics at ICANN confab (News.com)
I remember a while back there were some people running servers which acted like root nameservers, handled all the official names normally, but also handled some extras. People complained that having alternative root nameservers destabilized DNS. Now that it's been demonstrated that the official root nameservers aren't stable, I'm curious as to whether those are still around. Given the disregard with which Verisign treated XO, I could imagine XO deciding that it would use a different set instead of Verisign's ones.
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