On 24 May 2014, at 23:55, David Conrad <drc(_at_)virtualized(_dot_)org> wrote:
* Section 1, 2nd paragraph:
They currently also serve the root-
servers.net zone and the zone for the .arpa top-level
domain[ARPAZONE].
The "J" root server does not serve .ARPA.
The J-Root server does serve ARPA.
There was a time when all servers but J served IN-ADDR.ARPA, which is perhaps
what you are remembering. Today, none of the root servers serve IN-ADDR.ARPA.
[walrus:~]% dig @J.root-servers.net arpa soa +norec
; <<>> DiG 9.9.5 <<>> @J.root-servers.net arpa soa +norec
; (2 servers found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 2202
;; flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 12, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;arpa. IN SOA
;; ANSWER SECTION:
arpa. 86400 IN SOA a.root-servers.net.
nstld.verisign-grs.com. 2014052700 1800 900 604800 86400
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
arpa. 518400 IN NS a.root-servers.net.
arpa. 518400 IN NS b.root-servers.net.
arpa. 518400 IN NS c.root-servers.net.
arpa. 518400 IN NS d.root-servers.net.
arpa. 518400 IN NS e.root-servers.net.
arpa. 518400 IN NS f.root-servers.net.
arpa. 518400 IN NS g.root-servers.net.
arpa. 518400 IN NS h.root-servers.net.
arpa. 518400 IN NS i.root-servers.net.
arpa. 518400 IN NS k.root-servers.net.
arpa. 518400 IN NS l.root-servers.net.
arpa. 518400 IN NS m.root-servers.net.
;; Query time: 292 msec
;; SERVER: 2001:503:c27::2:30#53(2001:503:c27::2:30)
;; WHEN: Tue May 27 15:26:05 EAT 2014
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 299
[walrus:~]%
Joe
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