Re: Important Informational Message - root.zone change

2002-11-06 Thread Andrew Brown
The change will be reflected in zone serial # 2002110501. [...] J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 192.58.128.30 [...] ...the old data is still being served by root-servers.net, vis: Looks to me like dot's serial isn't 2002110501 yet: H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 2002110500

Re: Important Informational Message - root.zone change

2002-11-05 Thread Perry E. Metzger
John Crain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: *PLEASE NOTE* This is an important Informational Message to the internet community: November 5, 2002, the IP address for J.root-servers.net will change in the authoritative NS set for dot. Why is this change being made? Also: The change

Re: Important Informational Message - root.zone change

2002-11-05 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Also... Why is it that the PGP keys with which the root zone cache file is being signed aren't widely available? The files are signed with keyid C1D27AF9 which I cannot retrieve from, for instance, the MIT PGP keyserver. Given the importance of the file it would be nice to verify the data. --

Re: Important Informational Message - root.zone change

2002-11-05 Thread bmanning
November 5, 2002, the IP address for J.root-servers.net will change in the authoritative NS set for dot. Why is this change being made? as a simple step in improving the robustness of the overall system. back in the day, NSI agreed to act as guardian for a couple

Re: Important Informational Message - root.zone change

2002-11-05 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: John Crain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: November 5, 2002, the IP address for J.root-servers.net will change in the authoritative NS set for dot. Why is this change being made? My guess would be because of the proximity of

Re: Important Informational Message - root.zone change

2002-11-05 Thread Randy Bush
Why is it that the PGP keys with which the root zone cache file is being signed aren't widely available? The files are signed with keyid C1D27AF9 which I cannot retrieve from, for instance, the MIT PGP keyserver. Given the importance of the file it would be nice to verify the data. that's

Who reads warning messages? Re: Important Informational Message -root.zone change

2002-11-05 Thread Sean Donelan
Cool, the root checks in BIND work Nov 5 22:28:35 clifden named[2072]: [ID 295310 daemon.warning] check_hints: A records for J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET class 1 do not match hint records Nevertheless, BIND 8.X does appear to use the root list returned from the queried name server . 517997 IN

Important Informational Message - root.zone change

2002-11-04 Thread John Crain
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 *PLEASE NOTE* This is an important Informational Message to the internet community: November 5, 2002, the IP address for J.root-servers.net will change in the authoritative NS set for dot. The change will be reflected in zone serial #

Important Informational Message - root.zone change

2002-11-04 Thread John Crain
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 *PLEASE NOTE* This is an important Informational Message to the internet community: November 5, 2002, the IP address for J.root-servers.net will change in the authoritative NS set for dot. The change will be reflected in zone serial #

RE: Important Informational Message - root.zone change

2002-11-04 Thread John Crain
: Monday, November 04, 2002 3:26 PM To: NANOG Subject: Important Informational Message - root.zone change *** PGP Signature Status: good *** Signer: John Crain [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Signed: 11/4/2002 3:15:49 PM *** Verified: 11/4/2002 3:39:50 PM *** BEGIN PGP VERIFIED MESSAGE

Re: Important Informational Message - root.zone change

2002-11-04 Thread Sean Donelan
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, John Crain wrote: This WILL require a change to your root hints file. The new [...] Both the new and old j.root-servers.net IP space will provide answers in parallel for the foreseeable future. Since its been 5 years since the hints/cache boot file has changed, it may be

don't panic Re: Important Informational Message - root.zone change

2002-11-04 Thread john
I believe that updating your hints file is a good idea, but your internet isn't going to die if you don't do it right away. BIND and other decent reslovers will always load the current copy of the Root Zone from any reachable root server. That data will take precidence over the data in the

Re: Important Informational Message - root.zone change

2002-11-04 Thread Daniel Karrenberg
At 12:59 AM 11/5/2002, Sean Donelan wrote: Since its been 5 years since the hints/cache boot file has changed, it may be useful to remind people an immediate change to your local configuration files is not required. You don't need to slashdot internic.net tomorrow morning trying to download the