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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. Pulled up by the roots by Gizzmonic · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    You know, this reminds me a lot of the C.S Lewis classic, The Silver Chair. The enchanted Prince Rilian is only sane for one hour, when he is tied to his enchanted silver chair.

    It makes me wonder-is DNS only sane when the world root servers are switching. Is this the time for the Puddleglums and Poles of the world to sally forth and cut the cords of DNS for good?

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    (-1, Raw and Uncut is the only way to read)
  2. Paid to look at porn by IIEFreeMan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yup see this article on k5 : Get Paid To Look At Porn !

  3. Re:Why should we care? by sv0f · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    heh Couldn't resist, sorry :>

    No need to apologize. You're not funny.

  4. Spelling does not seem to be your forte by jCaT · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Oh the irony in that... you try to sound so smart by tacking on an accent, but end up sounding stupid in the process. There is and never has been an accent anywhere in that word, as it is not supposed to be pronounced with one. The mispronunciation of the word has become so widespread that it is now accepted, but it's still not proper usage. The correct pronunciation is FORT, and since you seem to be such a fan of accents, that would be fôrt.

    Go read this, and get off your high horse, jackass.