New addresses for b.root-servers.net

Tue Jun 13 04:37:32 UTC 2023

Mark Andrews wrote:

>>> The commitment to maintain service for 1 year after the new LACNIC
>>> addresses are switched in to the root.hints from IANA does not mean that
>>> this is a cutoff date and that we intend to turn off service on the
>>> older addresses after a year.  We currently have no plans to do so for
>>> the foreseeable future. In fact, the possibility has not even been
>>> suggested or discussed at all.
>>
>> Such total lack of advance and public discussion and preparation
>> on a substantial change on critical infrastructure is a serious
>> problem, I'm afraid.

> I'm curious about what more discussion you want to happen than has
> happen in the past. Over the last 20 years there have been lots of
> address changes.

If such changes are performed without proper transition plans
even after DNS became critical infrastructure (when?), they
also are serious problems.

> None of them have caused operational problems.

Thank you for a devil's proof. That you haven't noticed any
problem does not mean there actually was no problem.

					Masataka Ohta