Advance notice - H-root address change on December 1, 2015

Josh Luthman josh at imaginenetworksllc.com
Mon Nov 16 15:35:02 UTC 2015


Just a heads up, even the latest CentOS 7 package has the wrong IPv4 and v6
address.

Version     : 9.9.4
Release     : 18.el7_1.1


Josh Luthman
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On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 7:30 AM, Kash, Howard M CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US) <
howard.m.kash.civ at mail.mil> wrote:

>
> Friendly reminder...
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Kash, Howard M
> CIV USARMY RDECOM
> > ARL (US)
> > Sent: Monday, August 31, 2015 12:39 PM
> > To: nanog at nanog.org
> > Subject: Advance notice - H-root address change on December 1, 2015
> >
> >
> > This is advance notice that there is a scheduled change to the IP
> addresses
> > for one of the authorities listed for the DNS root zone and the .ARPA
> TLD.
> > The change is to H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET, which is administered by the U.S.
> Army
> > Research Laboratory.
> >
> > The new IPv4 address for this authority is 198.97.190.53.
> >
> > The new IPv6 address for the authority is 2001:500:1::53.
> >
> > This change is anticipated to be implemented in the root zone on 1
> December
> > 2015, however the new addresses are operational now. They will replace
> the
> > previous IP addresses of 128.63.2.53 and 2001:500:1::803f:235 (also
> > previously known as AOS.BRL.MIL and AOS.ARL.ARMY.MIL).
> >
> > We encourage operators of DNS infrastructure to update any references to
> the
> > old IP addresses and replace them with the new addresses. In particular,
> > many DNS resolvers have a DNS root "hints" file. This should be updated
> with
> > the new IP addresses.
> >
> > New hints files will be available at the following URLs once the change
> has
> > been formally executed on December 1:
> >
> >   http://www.internic.net/domain/named.root
> >   http://www.internic.net/domain/named.cache
> >
> > The old IPv4 address will continue to work for six months after the
> > transition (until 1 June 2016), at which point it will be retired from
> > service.  The address will remain under the control of the Army Research
> > Laboratory, never to be used again for DNS service.  The old IPv6 address
> > will continue to work indefinitely, but may ultimately be retired from
> > service.
> >
> > Simultaneous to the retirement of the old address on June 1, 2016, the
> > ASN for H-root will change from 13 to 1508.
> >
> > You can monitor the transition of queries to the new addresses at the
> > following URL:
> >
> >   http://h.root-servers.org/old_vs_new.html
> >
> >
> > --
> > Howard Kash
> > U.S. Army Research Laboratory
>



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