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Re: ICANN registrar supporting v6 glue?

  • From: Mark Andrews
  • Date: Sun Jul 01 19:58:40 2007

In article <[email protected]> you write:
>
>I've read your email twice and I dont follow. 
>
>Either you are telling me
>
>a) Provide my own hints with AAAA included (you specifically say thats not what you mean tho)
>
>or
>
>b) Serve my own root zone. From a root operator, surely thats not right either (I hope!)?

	You don't want to override the NS records.  You want to augment the
	address records.  You can do it on a per host basis (which is what I
	do at home) or you can do it by augmenting the contents of
	root-servers.net.  You will note that I have choosen not
	to leak the addresses to anyone other than myself.

        zone "b.root-servers.net" {
                type master;
                file "master/b.root-servers.net";
                notify no;
                allow-query { localhost; };
        };

        zone "f.root-servers.net" {
                type master;
                file "master/f.root-servers.net";
                notify no;
                allow-query { localhost; };
        };

        zone "h.root-servers.net" {
                type master;
                file "master/h.root-servers.net";
                notify no;
                allow-query { localhost; };
        };

        zone "k.root-servers.net" {
                type master;
                file "master/k.root-servers.net";
                notify no;
                allow-query { localhost; };
        };

        zone "m.root-servers.net" {
                type master;
                file "master/m.root-servers.net";
                notify no;
                allow-query { localhost; };
        };

	or

	zone "root-servers.net" {
		type master;
		file "master/root-servers.net";
                notify no;
                allow-query { localhost; };
	}

>> 	In the few couple of years I've only seen two outages with the
>> 	IPv6 root instances.  In both cases they were fixed soon after
>> 	reporting the outage.
>
>So there are v6 roots out there?

	I'm using the IPv6 addresses published by the root server
	operators on http://www.root-servers.org/.  They are the
	addresses that will be added to root-servers.net zone once
	there is agreement to add them.

> Where are they hiding and why arent they being provided in
> the hints file or NS queries on . ?

	They arn't hiding.  They were published years ago.  It's
	just a long process to get them added to the root-servers.net
	zone.

	I added them to my config on Feb 18 2005 and they had been
	published for a long time when I did that.

-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  160 Feb 18  2005 /var/named/master/b.root-servers.net
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  156 Feb 18  2005 /var/named/master/f.root-servers.net
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  162 Feb 18  2005 /var/named/master/h.root-servers.net
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  154 Feb 18  2005 /var/named/master/k.root-servers.net
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  155 Feb 18  2005 /var/named/master/m.root-servers.net

	Mark

>Steve
>
>> 
>> B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600    IN      A       192.228.79.201
>> B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600    IN      AAAA    2001:478:65::53
>> F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600    IN      A       192.5.5.241
>> F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600    IN      AAAA    2001:500::1035
>> H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600    IN      A       128.63.2.53
>> H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600    IN      AAAA    2001:500:1::803f:235
>> K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600    IN      A       193.0.14.129
>> K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600    IN      AAAA    2001:7fd::1
>> M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600    IN      A       202.12.27.33
>> M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600    IN      AAAA    2001:dc3::35
>> 
>> >Note also that various ccTLD's are able to add glue to your zone on
>> >request (notably .fr/.ch/.nl/.se do so already for quite some time)
>> >
>> >Greets,
>> > Jeroen