[100724] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Tue Nov 6 15:25:58 2007
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
To: "Nanog@Merit. Edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4730C946.4080106@infiltrated.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 15:24:09 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Nov 6, 2007, at 3:06 PM, J. Oquendo wrote:
> Nice to get news third string...
>
> //
> Last week, ICANN setup a new IP address for one of the thirteen "root
> name servers" that oversee DNS queries across the net, and it plans on
> retiring the old address as soon as the late spring.
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/06/icann_rolls_out_new_root_name_server_address/
It was posted to DNS-Operations. Which is where, uh, DNS Operations
are discussed....
Plus, as long as one of the IP addresses in your hints file is good,
it doesn't really matter after launch. The SOA from one of the roots
will override the hints file.
--
TTFN,
patrick
