[102329] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Repotting report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pekka Savola)
Tue Feb 5 02:16:12 2008
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 09:10:11 +0200 (EET)
From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
cc: Kevin Loch <kloch@kl.net>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080205012127.GA36332@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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.
--
Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
