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
