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Where were you? Domain Policy's been churning on it for a week. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > Derek J. Balling > Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 4:17 PM > To: Verd, Brad; '[email protected]' > Subject: Re: root-servers.net's nameservers change > > > > Perhaps I missed it... I seem to recall someone from NetSol (after > the SOA RNAME fiasco a week ago) saying "Hey, you're right, we > screwed up, before we push out any change, however minor, we'll tell > people when the change is coming and what it will be, so people will > be prepared". > > Now I'm all warm and happy that this "transferred very smoothly", but > I didn't see any "beforehand" notification of this change... (unless > my mail server ate it, which I'll accept as a possibility, although I > didn't see it in the archives either)... Is there a reason for that, > especially given the changes of the recent past going wrong? > > D > > > At 6:09 PM -0400 8/8/00, Verd, Brad wrote: > >Informational Message: > > > >On 8 August, 2000, Network Solutions took actions in > compliance with the > >cooperative agreement with the Department of Commerce to > discontinue use of > >the 'InterNIC' name. One specific aspect of this change > involves the server > >named rs0.internic.net, which had been the primary name > server for the > >root-servers.net domain name along with secondary servers > ns.ripe.net, > >ns.isi.edu and ns-ext.vix.com. > > > >All four of these servers were removed from the > root-servers.net domain name > >and replaced with the following servers which were already > functioning as > >root servers: > > > >a.root-servers.net > >f.root-servers.net > >k.root-servers.net > >j.root-servers.net > > > >At 1730 EDT, the new suite of name servers began acting > authoritatively for > >the root-servers.net domain. > > > >The net zone will be updated to reflect the root-servers.net > nameserver > >entries in serial #2000080801. > > > >The four hosts rs0.internic.net, ns.isi.edu, ns.ripe.net, > and ns-ext.vix.com > >will continue to serve the root-servers.net zone with the > new list of name > >servers. These hosts will continue to remain active until > the time of the > >new name server suite exceeds the Time To Live (TTL), as > defined in the > >root-servers.net zone. That TTL is currently set to > 3,600,000 seconds, or > >about 42 days. > > > >This is an operational change that transferred very > smoothly. You will NOT > >need to make any configuration changes on your machines. > You will NOT need > >a new root.cache file. > > > >-------------------------------------- > >Brad Verd > >gTLD Operations Manager > >Network Solutions Registry > >Email - [email protected] > >--------------------------------------- >
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