[145250] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET moved to Beijing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jimmy Hess)
Sun Oct 2 15:04:21 2011
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110021734010.80106@tiktik.epipe.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 14:03:19 -0500
From: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
To: Janne Snabb <snabb@epipe.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I see similar, intermittedly
# dig +short +norec @F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET HOSTNAME.BIND CHAOS TXT
"pek2a.f.root-servers.org"
# dig +short +norec @F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET HOSTNAME.BIND CHAOS TXT
"ord1b.f.root-servers.org"
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Janne Snabb <snabb@epipe.com> wrote:
> I happened to notice the following at three separate sites around
> the US and one site in Europe:
>
> $ dig +short +norec @F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET HOSTNAME.BIND CHAOS TXT
> "pek2a.f.root-servers.org"
>
> and:
>
> $ dig +short +norec @F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET HOSTNAME.BIND CHAOS TXT
> "pek2b.f.root-servers.org"
>
> After running a couple of traceroutes it appears that he.net has a
> route for F's anycast IPv6 address (2001:500:2f::f) towards Beijing.
> According to https://www.isc.org/community/f-root/sites the Beijing
> node should be a "Local Node" (without IPv6 but I suppose the list
> is not up to date).
>
> I believe this means that a lot of DNS queries from IPv6 enabled
> sites in US and other countries are going to Beijing. I wonder if
> this is intentional? Chinese government (CNNIC) seems to be in the
> path.
>
> All my sites seem to have he.net somewhere in the IPv6 connectivity
> path. I wonder if this is specific to he.net or more wide-spread
> routing anomaly?
>
> I have notified he.net NOC and F-root @ ISC.
>
> Best Regards,
> --
> Janne Snabb / EPIPE Communications
> snabb@epipe.com - http://epipe.com/
>
>
--
-JH
