Repotting report

Wed Feb 6 03:31:04 UTC 2008

On Feb 5, 2008 2:10 AM, Pekka Savola <pekkas at netcore.fi> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> > may try "dig any . @[a-m].root-servers.net."
> >
> > When I do that, I get the following response:
> >
> > a, c, d e, f, g, i and j return 1 SOA, 8 A, and 3 AAAA's (the first 3).
> > b, h, l, k, and m return 1 SOA, 13 A, no AAAA records.
> >
> > If you make this mistake you might think b, h, l, k and m have no
> > IPv6 data, which is wrong.  Querying with NS (as nameserver would
> > do) clearly shows that.
> >
> > While a cosmetic problem, I fear it may confuse a number of admins
> > as the troubleshoot problems in the near future.
>
> It certainly will.  Section 1.4 of RFC 4472 may be helpful here,
> though it mainly talks about this from the viewpoint of caching, not
> root servers.

So, how will this sort of thing affect traffic levels to the servers
in question? Will this affect stability on a v6only or v4-limited
site/network? (13 v4 servers, 4 v6 servers...)

How does a cache-resolver know that it's time to issue a query with edns0?

Having inconsistent information seems like it might cause more than
just troubleshooting headaches...

-Chris