[30480] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: root-servers.net's nameservers change
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek J. Balling)
Tue Aug 8 19:19:06 2000
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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 16:17:09 -0700
To: "Verd, Brad" <bverd@netsol.com>,
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From: "Derek J. Balling" <dredd@megacity.org>
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Perhaps I missed it... I seem to recall someone from NetSol (after
the SOA RNAME fiasco a week ago) saying "Hey, you're right, we
screwed up, before we push out any change, however minor, we'll tell
people when the change is coming and what it will be, so people will
be prepared".
Now I'm all warm and happy that this "transferred very smoothly", but
I didn't see any "beforehand" notification of this change... (unless
my mail server ate it, which I'll accept as a possibility, although I
didn't see it in the archives either)... Is there a reason for that,
especially given the changes of the recent past going wrong?
D
At 6:09 PM -0400 8/8/00, Verd, Brad wrote:
>Informational Message:
>
>On 8 August, 2000, Network Solutions took actions in compliance with the
>cooperative agreement with the Department of Commerce to discontinue use of
>the 'InterNIC' name. One specific aspect of this change involves the server
>named rs0.internic.net, which had been the primary name server for the
>root-servers.net domain name along with secondary servers ns.ripe.net,
>ns.isi.edu and ns-ext.vix.com.
>
>All four of these servers were removed from the root-servers.net domain name
>and replaced with the following servers which were already functioning as
>root servers:
>
>a.root-servers.net
>f.root-servers.net
>k.root-servers.net
>j.root-servers.net
>
>At 1730 EDT, the new suite of name servers began acting authoritatively for
>the root-servers.net domain.
>
>The net zone will be updated to reflect the root-servers.net nameserver
>entries in serial #2000080801.
>
>The four hosts rs0.internic.net, ns.isi.edu, ns.ripe.net, and ns-ext.vix.com
>will continue to serve the root-servers.net zone with the new list of name
>servers. These hosts will continue to remain active until the time of the
>new name server suite exceeds the Time To Live (TTL), as defined in the
>root-servers.net zone. That TTL is currently set to 3,600,000 seconds, or
>about 42 days.
>
>This is an operational change that transferred very smoothly. You will NOT
>need to make any configuration changes on your machines. You will NOT need
>a new root.cache file.
>
>--------------------------------------
>Brad Verd
>gTLD Operations Manager
>Network Solutions Registry
>Email - bverd@netsol.com
>---------------------------------------
