[100726] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Tue Nov 6 16:27:05 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: <3FB2D203-7C87-466E-A8B7-B58EA229F3E6@ianai.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 16:26:07 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Nov 6, 2007, at 3:24 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> 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....
It was pointed out to me that the sarcasm in this post is not clear.
I was not disagreeing, it should have been posted to NANOG (as well as
other places). I simply didn't notice it 'cause I saw it elsewhere.
Mostly I wanted to give out the info below, which somehow escaped my
personal knowledgebase until a very nice person from VeriSign
explained it to me at RIPE a couple weeks ago.
--
TTFN,
patrick
> 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
