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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hale)
Fri Dec 14 11:58:59 2012
In-Reply-To: <20121214165240.GA15550@rootmail.cc.le.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:58:45 -0800
From: Mike Hale <eyeronic.design@gmail.com>
To: Matthew Newton <mcn4@leicester.ac.uk>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Also, this appears to be par for the course for the last two IP Address
changes on root-servers.net.
That's why they keep the old address online for at least six months after
the official change.
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Matthew Newton <mcn4@leicester.ac.uk>wrote=
:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 04:42:46PM +0000, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> > On 13/12/2012 22:54, Jason Castonguay wrote:
> > > Advisory =97 D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of Januar=
y.
> >
> > You've just given 3 weeks notice for a component change in one of the f=
ew
> > critical part of the Internet's infrastructure, at a time when most
>
> I think that /was/ the advance notification - you've got 6 months :)
>
> "The old address will continue to work for at least six months
> after the transition, but will ultimately be retired from
> service."
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
>
>
> --
> Matthew Newton, Ph.D. <mcn4@le.ac.uk>
>
> Systems Architect (UNIX and Networks), Network Services,
> I.T. Services, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom
>
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