Root Zone Changed

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."

Comments

a quick theory

[cr@ckwhore]

Following the recent DOS attacks against the root servers, it wouldn't surprise me if this move is only a small part of a bigger story. I'm willing to bet that modifications are being made to the networking and security of the root servers that will better prepare the entire root system for future attacks. The move of J. is probably just the tip of the clandestine "ice berg".

Re:Why should we care?

[SacredNaCl]

I wonder if this has anything to do with the recent denial of service attacks against the root servers?

Just speculating that maybe the attackers used a worm/trojan that was preset to attack them at the previous IP on certain dates? Similar to some things we have seen in the past...