In message <50cb882a.30...@vaxination.ca>, Jean-Francois Mezei writes: > On 12-12-14 15:13, Jason Castonguay wrote: > > > I've given 3 weeks + 6 months (at least) notice on a service change that > > will not be noticed by most anyone. > > Upon hearing your announcement, I went and dig myself a new root.hints > file from one of the root servers. the "D" root is still pointing to the > old address. So I had to go in and manually edit the root.hints file > myself. I blame you for all that extra work :-)
Yet you appear to have not read the announcement. :-) > Would there be any impact to having the root servers immediatly provide > the new IP for the D server so that a > dig ns . @a.root-servers.net. > root.hints would yield the new updated > file ? Then people would complain "You didn't give us any warning". This is a HEADSUP of an upcoming change. > I realise that keeping the old IP functional for some time is important > for all the static configurations. But does it matter if a dynamic list > is updated "real time" without much advance warning ? 3 weeks is not a lot of "advance warning". -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org