[188248] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: L-Root IPv6 address renumbering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Job Snijders)
Sat Mar 12 17:05:49 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 23:05:43 +0100
From: Job Snijders <job@instituut.net>
To: David Soltero <david.soltero@icann.org>
In-Reply-To: <4AA7E64A-A96E-4E2E-9F13-E3E33315D06D@icann.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Hi David,
On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 09:06:20PM +0000, David Soltero wrote:
> This is advance notice that there is a scheduled change to the IPv6
> addresses in the Root Zone for the L root-server, also known as
> L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET, which is administered by the ICANN.
>
> The current IP addresses for the L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET service are:
> 2001:500:3::42
>
> As of March 23, 2016, the new IP addresses for the L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET service will be:
> 2001:500:9f::42
>
> The change will be implemented on the root zone on March 23, 2016
> 2100UTC, however the new address is already operational.
Can you elaborate on why this change is being introduced?
Kind regards,
Job
