Root Zone Changed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday November 7, 2002 @08:01AM 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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Will one need by bplipschitz · 2002-11-07 08:02 · Score: 0, Troll

a root canal to get there?
Alert! Alert! by wahay · 2002-11-07 08:20 · Score: 0, Troll

Make sure you point your network settings in windows to the new root server!
Related to Problems? by Mr+Bubble · 2002-11-07 08:55 · Score: 0, Troll

OK, this will probably mark me as a clueless newbie, but could this be remotely responsible for three separate issues of clients unable to resolve perfectly healthy domain names today and yesterday?

Pinging the sites from their machines returned an "unknown host".

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