[30481] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: root-servers.net's nameservers change
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Tue Aug 8 19:50:08 2000
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From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: "'Derek J. Balling'" <dredd@megacity.org>,
"'Verd, Brad'" <bverd@netsol.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 16:47:59 -0700
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Where were you? Domain Policy's been churning on it for a week.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On
Behalf Of
> Derek J. Balling
> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 4:17 PM
> To: Verd, Brad; 'nanog@merit.edu'
> Subject: Re: root-servers.net's nameservers change
>
>
>
> 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
> >---------------------------------------
>
