[dns-operations] contacting the root ops

[Mark Andrews]

In message <E61D00E9-6CE7-40F8-90A7-E7CA96C7E7FB at hopcount.ca>, Joe Abley writes
:
> 
> On 2010-03-17, at 16:27, Edward Lewis wrote:
> 
> > But I just realized today that to find a potential email contact for a root
>  operator you have to consult an unofficial source (root-servers.org is not r
> oot-servers.net and I only make that distinction because it was once brought 
> up in a debate between two root operators) and then find an obscure piece of 
> information buried in an SOA record.
> 
> Where would be a more appropriate place to publish contact information for in
> dividual root server operators, or for the root server system as a whole?
> 
> There's an RSSAC meeting this coming Sunday. If there are ideas on how to mak
> e this better, that would be a good place to talk about them.
> 
> 
> Joe
> 
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The DNS has a record to publish who is responsible for a node.
Perhaps we should be using it.

Mark

% dig rp m.root-servers.net

; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1 <<>> rp m.root-servers.net
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 63673
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;m.root-servers.net.            IN      RP

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
root-servers.net.       10800   IN      SOA     a.root-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com. 2009122300 14400 7200 1209600 3600000

;; Query time: 539 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Thu Mar 18 08:26:38 2010
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 96

% 
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