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Root Zone Changed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the verisign-causing-instability-as-usual dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The day before yesterday the root zone was silently changed for the first time in 5 years. The change was to J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET that is now managed by Verisign. The usual sites don't breathe a word about this change however as one would expect for such a change to be properly announced. An interesing sidenote is this thread on the IETF discussion list." the_proton writes "The server j.root-servers.net has changed IP address to 192.58.128.30. The new root zone hints can be grabbed from ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/named.root or ftp://ftp.internic.net/domain/named.root. The new zone serial number is 2002110501."

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  1. protocols? by ftide · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    are there written protocols & procedures for this activity agreed upon by the community?

    where's the oversight? who made the decision that changed the root zone? A *.int (intl. exchange) entity should mandate or govern root zone oversight, not some U$ corporate shill.

    1. Re:protocols? by DAldredge · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Why? It's not like the international community every does anything. All the ever do is talk about doing it...

  2. How about query response times? by whovian · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    http://www.cymru.com/DNS/dns.html

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  3. Re:Hoax! by ohboy-sleep · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I thought NAT IPs were all 192.168.x.x

    I could be very wrong, anyone know for sure?