[158895] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Advisory =?windows-1252?Q?=97_D-root_is_changing_its?=
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Mezei)
Fri Dec 14 15:12:42 2012
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:12:26 -0500
From: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <50CB8877.80605@umd.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12-12-14 15:13, Jason Castonguay wrote:
> I've given 3 weeks + 6 months (at least) notice on a service change that
> will not be noticed by most anyone.
Upon hearing your announcement, I went and dig myself a new root.hints
file from one of the root servers. the "D" root is still pointing to the
old address. So I had to go in and manually edit the root.hints file
myself. I blame you for all that extra work :-)
Would there be any impact to having the root servers immediatly provide
the new IP for the D server so that a
dig ns . @a.root-servers.net. > root.hints would yield the new updated
file ?
I realise that keeping the old IP functional for some time is important
for all the static configurations. But does it matter if a dynamic list
is updated "real time" without much advance warning ?
