> On 24 Apr 2018, at 15:51, Job Snijders <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> At least this is a good sign: 
> https://github.com/search?q=ns-v6.ripe.net&type=Code

Thanks Job. Though I wasn’t thinking (or caring) about github crapware. I was 
thinking about stuff that might have been written for internal use -- say at an 
ISP -- and would only show up whenever these scripts or whatever made queries 
for ns-v6.ripe.net.

As I’m sure we all realise, there’s a long tail of legacy cruft out there. So 
even when some name gets removed from the DNS (or isn't found in github), that 
doesn’t necessarily mean that the name is no longer used. For instance, there’s 
still traffic going to IP addresses for root servers that were renumbered years 
ago. Admittedly that’s not quite the same thing because the names of the root 
servers in question haven’t gone away, but it illustrates the point I was 
trying to make.


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