Re: Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January.
Job Snijders
job at instituut.net
Fri Dec 14 20:28:21 UTC 2012
Hi Jean,
On Dec 14, 2012, at 9:12 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> On 12-12-14 15:13, Jason Castonguay wrote:
>
>> I've given 3 weeks + 6 months (at least) notice on a service change that
>> will not be noticed by most anyone.
>
> Upon hearing your announcement, I went and dig myself a new root.hints
> file from one of the root servers. the "D" root is still pointing to the
> old address. So I had to go in and manually edit the root.hints file
> myself. I blame you for all that extra work :-)
derp derp
> Would there be any impact to having the root servers immediatly provide
> the new IP for the D server so that a
> dig ns . @a.root-servers.net. > root.hints would yield the new updated
> file ?
As far as I understand, after 3 January 2013 such a dig command would
create a new updated file with the new IP address.
Kind regards,
Job
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