named.root

[David Freedman]

Well gosh, and there was me thinking that both would work together to 
make such a change :)

And there is http://www.root-servers.org/ suggesting

"
The root hints file (named.cache, root.ca, root.hints, ...) can be 
obtained via IANA's page for popular links (http://www.iana.org/popular.htm)
"
which in turn points to [www|ftp].internic.net

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Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 12:25:52PM +0000,
>  David Freedman <david.freedman at uk.clara.net> wrote 
>  a message of 114 lines which said:
> 
>> Shame its not made it to HTTP yet:
> 
> Nothing to do with the protocol but with the organization which
> manages the server:
> 
>> $ lynx --source http://www.internic.net/zones/named.root | grep AAAA
> 
> www.internic.net is managed by ICANN.
> 
>> $ lynx --source ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/named.root | grep "last update"
> 
> rs.internic.net is managed by Verisign.
>