Re: Should a nameserver know about itself?

Jim Reid <Jim.Reid@nominum.com> Fri, 11 May 2001 09:21 UTC

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To: Sam Trenholme <namedroppers@local.reachin.com>
Cc: Bruce Campbell <bruce.campbell@apnic.net>, dnsop@cafax.se
Subject: Re: Should a nameserver know about itself?
In-Reply-To: Message from Sam Trenholme <namedroppers@local.reachin.com> of "Thu, 10 May 2001 21:26:07 PDT." <Pine.LNX.4.30.0105102117300.2923-100000@artemas.reachin.com>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 02:01:59 -0700
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From: Jim Reid <Jim.Reid@nominum.com>
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>>>>> "Sam" == Sam Trenholme <namedroppers@local.reachin.com> writes:

    Sam> what class is class 3 anyway?

CHAOS. It was a protocol suite that was mainly used by long-dead Lisp
machines. for years BIND has a compiled-in string which it supplies
when asked for a CHAOS TXT record or version.bind.