hi,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:56 AM, JM Okech <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:okechjr@yahoo.com">okechjr@yahoo.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font: inherit;" valign="top"><div>Sorry Michuki, Listers,</div>
<div>Just wondering .... from the document that you directed us together with the content of your mail it appears like we only have 12 root servers. My undersstanding that we have 13 root servers (interms of the allowable IP address) kindly clarify this....<br>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br>historically, not all of the roots have served the ARPA zone, so &quot;J&quot; is not serving that zone.<br><br>On dns-ops, DRC just pointed us to RFC 2870 section 2.5 if you are really interested.<br>

<br></div></div>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>&quot;A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.&quot;  Jon Postel<br>