[dns-operations] root zone archive

[Jeremy C. Reed]

> Is anybody here aware of a complete or partial archive of root zone data
> that is older than the set available at DNS-OARC? OARC's archive has
> nothing older than July 2009.

Just for fun, I looked at some old archives I had, mostly from old BSD 
distributions. Have a look:
http://bikeshed.isc.org/~jreed/root-servers-history/
I found some going back to 1986.
Also see
http://bikeshed.isc.org/~jreed/root-servers-history/root-nameservers.data
(I didn't check it much though.)