[30399] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: TLD operations change
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Leinen)
Wed Aug 2 10:59:43 2000
To: Kurt Kayser <kurt@noris.de>
Cc: "Verd, Brad" <bverd@netsol.com>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Simon Leinen <simon@limmat.switch.ch>
In-Reply-To: Kurt Kayser's message of "Wed, 2 Aug 2000 07:50:40 +0200"
Date: 02 Aug 2000 16:57:18 +0200
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>>>>> "kk" == Kurt Kayser <kurt@noris.de> writes:
>> Effective zone serial number 2000080101, g.root-servers.net
>> (192.112.36.4) will no longer be authoritatively answering for com,
>> net, org. In its place g.gtld-servers.net (198.41.3.101) will be
>> added as an authoritative server for com, net, org.
> Does this also mean, that there should be a new 'root-zone' that
> lists the new gtld-servers explicitly, instead the 'old'
> x.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ?
No, as there is no change in the set of root name servers.
The set of gTLD (.com/.net/.org) nameservers has changed
(g.root-servers.net => g.gtld-servers.net), but the gTLD servers don't
have to be preconfigured using a "hints" file---they are found using
regular DNS queries to the root servers.
--
Simon.
