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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Job Snijders)
Fri Dec 14 15:28:38 2012
From: Job Snijders <job@instituut.net>
In-Reply-To: <50CB882A.30502@vaxination.ca>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 21:28:21 +0100
To: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hi Jean,
On Dec 14, 2012, at 9:12 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei =
<jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> On 12-12-14 15:13, Jason Castonguay wrote:
>=20
>> I've given 3 weeks + 6 months (at least) notice on a service change =
that
>> will not be noticed by most anyone. =20
>=20
> 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 :-)
derp derp
> 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 ?
As far as I understand, after 3 January 2013 such a dig command would
create a new updated file with the new IP address.=20
Kind regards,
Job=
