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As the number of hosts were increasing so was the size of this flat file, and with the frequency of updates, a decentralized database need was felt. To address this problem, Mr. [[Jon Postel]] and Mr. [[Paul Mockapetris]] published a number of RFCs that laid down the design of DNS.
As the number of hosts were increasing so was the size of this flat file, and with the frequency of updates, a decentralized database need was felt. To address this problem, Mr. [[Jon Postel]] and Mr. [[Paul Mockapetris]] published a number of RFCs that laid down the design of DNS.
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To test the DNS, Postel and Mockapetris set up the first root server in 1984 at the [[Information Science Institute]] (ISI) at the University of South California (USC). The domain name services were running on the software developed by Mockapetris, named JEEVES. In 1985, an additional root was added at ISI.
To test the DNS, Postel and [[Paul Mockapetris|Mockapetris]] set up the first root server in 1984 at the [[Information Science Institute]] (ISI) at the University of South California (USC). The domain name services were running on the software developed by Mockapetris, named JEEVES. In 1985, an additional root was added at ISI.
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An additional root server was placed at SRI International, as it was NIC for DDN and was handling the registration of hosts and maintenance of the hosts.txt file.
An additional root server was placed at SRI International, as it was NIC for DDN and was handling the registration of hosts and maintenance of the hosts.txt file.