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Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers

  • From: Peter Dambier
  • Date: Tue Sep 27 11:23:21 2005

Evren Demirkan wrote:
Ok So what,

I am located in Turkiye..Can Any one simplify the whole stuff in plain
English?

Evren Demirkan
Hi Evren Demirkan,

there has been for about one year a turkish root-server:

l.public-root.com

That server did not resolve the ICANN root but The Public-Root.

Until some ISPs in Turkey started selling turkish language toplevel domains
nobody noticed because in the legacy domains ICANN and Public-Root are
compatible.

As I am comparing the root-servers to check compatibility I had to find out
sooner or later that l.public-root.com was drifting away from the rest of
our root-servers.

I found out that l.public-root.com was not only missing updates and losing
compatibility with ICANN but it started servicing a completely new root:

*.united-root.com

Except for the root-servers themselves and the names of the root-servers
united-root.com did run old Public-Root data.

You can check from which root your DNS comes by asking this simple querey
using dig on linux or unix:

dig -t any .

My dig, in the Public-Root, answers:

; <<>> DiG 9.1.3 <<>> -t any .
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 37356
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 14, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;.                              IN      ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
.                       172800  IN      SOA     a.public-root.net. \
                                                hostmaster.public-root.net.\
                                        2005092712 43200 3600 1209600 14400

.                       172800  IN      NS      a.public-root.net.
.                       172800  IN      NS      b.public-root.net.
.                       172800  IN      NS      c.public-root.net.
.                       172800  IN      NS      d.public-root.net.
.                       172800  IN      NS      e.public-root.net.
.                       172800  IN      NS      f.public-root.net.
.                       172800  IN      NS      g.public-root.net.
.                       172800  IN      NS      h.public-root.net.
.                       172800  IN      NS      i.public-root.net.
.                       172800  IN      NS      j.public-root.net.
.                       172800  IN      NS      k.public-root.net.
.                       172800  IN      NS      l.public-root.net.
.                       172800  IN      NS      m.public-root.net.

;; Query time: 207 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.48.228#53(192.168.48.228)
;; WHEN: Tue Sep 27 17:16:12 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 273

If you are in the ICANN root your answer should be:

; <<>> DiG 9.1.3 <<>> -t any . @a.root-servers.net
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 60636
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 14, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 3

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;.                              IN      ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
.                       518400  IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       86400   IN      SOA     A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. \
                                                NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM. \
                                        2005092601 1800 900 604800 86400

.                       518400  IN      NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
.                       518400  IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       198.41.0.4
H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       128.63.2.53
C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       192.33.4.12

;; Query time: 208 msec
;; SERVER: 198.41.0.4#53(a.root-servers.net)
;; WHEN: Tue Sep 27 17:19:33 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 502

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