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To: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
Cc: iesg@ietf.org, dnsop@cafax.se
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 17:27:35 -0800
Sender: owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject: Re: Last Call: Root Name Server Operational Requirements to BCP

>    3.4 The computers that publish a server's address MUST be secured as
>        carefully as the server itself.

i thought a resolver got the addresses of the root servers

  o initially from the hints file distributed and pgp signed by the iana

  o and them refreshed these from [any one of] the listed servers

i.e. a resolver does not look up 'a.root-servers.net' to find a root server.

randy

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