Re: ICANN registrar supporting v6 glue?

[Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews () isc org>]

In article <20070630133219.GF18222 () MrServer telecomplete net> 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