Turkey has switched Root-Servers
Peter Dambier
peter at peter-dambier.de
Tue Sep 27 15:21:51 UTC 2005
Evren Demirkan wrote:
>
> Ok So what,
>
> I am located in Turkiye..Can Any one simplify the whole stuff in plain
> English?
>
> Evren Demirkan
Hi Evren Demirkan,
there has been for about one year a turkish root-server:
l.public-root.com
That server did not resolve the ICANN root but The Public-Root.
Until some ISPs in Turkey started selling turkish language toplevel domains
nobody noticed because in the legacy domains ICANN and Public-Root are
compatible.
As I am comparing the root-servers to check compatibility I had to find out
sooner or later that l.public-root.com was drifting away from the rest of
our root-servers.
I found out that l.public-root.com was not only missing updates and losing
compatibility with ICANN but it started servicing a completely new root:
*.united-root.com
Except for the root-servers themselves and the names of the root-servers
united-root.com did run old Public-Root data.
You can check from which root your DNS comes by asking this simple querey
using dig on linux or unix:
dig -t any .
My dig, in the Public-Root, answers:
; <<>> DiG 9.1.3 <<>> -t any .
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 37356
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 14, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;. IN ANY
;; ANSWER SECTION:
. 172800 IN SOA a.public-root.net. \
hostmaster.public-root.net.\
2005092712 43200 3600 1209600 14400
. 172800 IN NS a.public-root.net.
. 172800 IN NS b.public-root.net.
. 172800 IN NS c.public-root.net.
. 172800 IN NS d.public-root.net.
. 172800 IN NS e.public-root.net.
. 172800 IN NS f.public-root.net.
. 172800 IN NS g.public-root.net.
. 172800 IN NS h.public-root.net.
. 172800 IN NS i.public-root.net.
. 172800 IN NS j.public-root.net.
. 172800 IN NS k.public-root.net.
. 172800 IN NS l.public-root.net.
. 172800 IN NS m.public-root.net.
;; Query time: 207 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.48.228#53(192.168.48.228)
;; WHEN: Tue Sep 27 17:16:12 2005
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 273
If you are in the ICANN root your answer should be:
; <<>> DiG 9.1.3 <<>> -t any . @a.root-servers.net
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 60636
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 14, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 3
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;. IN ANY
;; ANSWER SECTION:
. 518400 IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 86400 IN SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. \
NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM. \
2005092601 1800 900 604800 86400
. 518400 IN NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
. 518400 IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 IN A 198.41.0.4
H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 IN A 128.63.2.53
C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 IN A 192.33.4.12
;; Query time: 208 msec
;; SERVER: 198.41.0.4#53(a.root-servers.net)
;; WHEN: Tue Sep 27 17:19:33 2005
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 502
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