RE: root-servers.net's nameservers change

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () mhsc com>]

Where were you? Domain Policy's been churning on it for a week.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On
Behalf Of
> Derek J. Balling
> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 4:17 PM
> To: Verd, Brad; 'nanog () merit edu'
> 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 - bverd () netsol com
> > ---------------------------------------