[31319] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Tue Sep 19 16:33:56 2000
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:31:14 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@bbnplanet.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: "Verd, Brad" <bverd@netsol.com>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <E13bTvZ-000Ajh-00@rip.psg.com>; from randy@psg.com on Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 01:23:41PM -0700
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> while i appreciate you folk trying to be open and give us all some info, it
> is not clear to me what you expect us to do with this info and therefore why
> you post it.
Randy,
I appreciate knowing when the authoritative nameservers for the root
zone, and for zones like .COM, .NET, .ORG, and .EDU change.
> the only change that could occur that would require thought on my part would
> seem to be if the iana announced a change of the ip address of one of the
> root servers. am i not understanding something?
Even in that case, thought would be pretty limited.
I think this is more useful than most of the mail to nanog.
On some level, it serves as a "be on the lookout for problems
that might inadvertantly result," as well.
--jhawk
