Thankyou for asking.
I do care for the health of the root-servers.
Many say there is only one root but they forget to mention which one.
All root-servers try to keep in sync somehow.
Right now root-servers.net is not in sync with its zone file.
If the reason should be a natural desaster of any kind then
Public-Root would be obliged to offer publishing the zone file,
without asking any undue questions and without making any undue
statements.
Everything my be discussed on a private channel.
I also noticed there is a major difference between the old and
the new zone file. Could this be the reason why there was no
update on the servers?
I tried to load the root-zone file on my personal root-server and
did not live through any problems but right now my server is IPv4
only.
To spare search and debug, here is the diff:
(please forgive the long list)
#
SOA(".","2005090200","A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.","NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM.","1800","900","604800","86400").
ADD: A.DNS.BR AAAA
2001:12FF:0:0:0:0:0:10
ADD: E.DNS.JP AAAA 2001:200:0:1:0:0:0:4
ADD: C.DNS.TW AAAA
2001:238:800:1:0:0:0:1
ADD: D.DNS.JP AAAA
2001:240:0:0:0:0:0:53
ADD: F.DNS.JP AAAA
2001:2F8:0:100:0:0:0:153
ADD: DNS1.THNIC.CO.TH AAAA
2001:3C8:1209:1:0:0:0:22
ADD: NS.AMNIC.NET AAAA
2001:4D00:0:0:0:0:0:90
ADD: NS-EXT.ISC.ORG AAAA
2001:4F8:0:2:0:0:0:13
ADD: D.EXT.NIC.FR AAAA 2001:4F8:0:2:0:0:0:8
ADD: NS-US1.NIC.AT AAAA
2001:4F8:4:B:0:0:0:202
ADD: NS4.NIC.COOP AAAA
2001:502:100E:0:0:0:0:106
ADD: D.DNS.LU AAAA
2001:502:100E:0:0:0:0:251
ADD: NSD.NIC.UK AAAA
2001:502:100E:0:0:0:0:44
ADD: NS1.NIC.COOP AAAA
2001:502:D399:0:0:0:0:106
ADD: A.DNS.LU AAAA
2001:502:D399:0:0:0:0:251
ADD: NSA.NIC.UK AAAA
2001:502:D399:0:0:0:0:44
ADD: B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET AAAA
2001:503:231D:0:0:0:2:30
ADD: A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET AAAA
2001:503:A83E:0:0:0:2:30
ADD: F.NIC.DE AAAA 2001:608:6:0:0:0:0:5
ADD: NS-ZA.RIPE.NET AAAA
2001:610:240:0:53:0:0:193
ADD: NS-SEC.RIPE.NET AAAA
2001:610:240:0:53:0:0:4
ADD: DOMREG.NIC.CH AAAA 2001:620:0:0:0:0:0:4
ADD: MERAPI.SWITCH.CH AAAA 2001:620:0:0:0:0:0:5
ADD: NS2.UNIVIE.AC.AT AAAA
2001:628:453:4302:0:0:0:53
ADD: Z.NIC.DE AAAA
2001:628:453:4905:0:0:0:53
ADD: NS0.JA.NET AAAA
2001:630:0:8:0:0:0:14
ADD: NS0.JA.NET AAAA
2001:630:0:9:0:0:0:14
ADD: NS4.NIC.UK AAAA
2001:630:181:35:0:0:0:83
ADD: B.HOSTING.NIC.FR AAAA
2001:660:3005:1:0:0:1:2
ADD: B.NIC.FR AAAA
2001:660:3005:1:0:0:1:2
ADD: C.NIC.FR AAAA
2001:660:3006:1:0:0:1:1
ADD: NS2.DNS.PT AAAA
2001:690:A80:4001:0:0:0:100
ADD: A.NS.SE AAAA
2001:698:9:301:0:0:0:53
ADD: BRUSSELS.NS.DNS.BE AAAA
2001:6A8:3C60:0:0:0:0:BE
ADD: F.NS.SE AAAA
2001:6B0:7:0:0:0:0:53
ADD: G.NS.SE AAAA
2001:6B0:8:1:0:0:0:53
ADD: DNS.NIC.IT AAAA
2001:760:4000:1F5:0:0:0:5
ADD: NSIT.GARR.NET AAAA
2001:760:FFFF:FFFF:0:0:0:CA
ADD: NS3.NS.ESAT.NET AAAA
2001:7C8:2:A:0:0:0:64
ADD: NS.ATI.TN AAAA
2001:970:1:1:0:0:0:10
ADD: A.NASK.PL AAAA
2001:A10:1:1:0:0:0:44
ADD: NS6.IEDR.IE AAAA
2001:BB0:CCC3:0:0:0:0:2
ADD: D.DNS.TW AAAA
2001:C50:FFFF:1:0:0:0:230
ADD: A.DNS.TW AAAA
2001:CD8:800:0:0:0:0:8
ADD: SEC3.APNIC.NET AAAA
2001:DC0:1:0:4777:0:0:140
ADD: A.DNS.JP AAAA 2001:DC4:0:0:0:0:0:1
ADD: G.DNS.KR AAAA 2001:DC5:A:0:0:0:0:1
ADD: NS.CNC.AC.CN AAAA 2001:DC7:0:0:0:0:0:1
ADD: DNS2.CNNIC.NET.CN AAAA
2001:DC7:1000:0:0:0:0:1
ADD: E.DNS.KR AAAA
2001:DCC:5:0:0:0:0:100
Kind regards,
Peter and Karin Dambier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 08:07:54AM -1000, Randy Bush wrote:
why do you care?
because root server status is one measure of internet
infrastructure status and stability.
yes it is... and having hundreds/thousands of
folks checking has its own set of issues.
I note that Peter was kind enough to show that
all the root servers he was able to reach - AGREED -
on the serial number they were using.
why do you want to imply that caring that a root
server does not respond is inappropriate?
does not respond from where? after all,
one does not have to reach -all- the root servers.
Getting to one is sufficent.
that said, Peter has his own "root-servers" and so
my question to him was why he should care about other
folks root servers.
randy
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