Re: With the announcement that: “Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January.”

[Warren Kumari]

On Dec 14, 2012, at 12:19 PM, Chris Buxton <chris.p.buxton at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On Dec 14, 2012, at 6:59 AM, Hayward, Bruce wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>>  
>> With the announcement that: “Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January.”
>>  
>> https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2012-December/009428.html
>>  
>> We are running 9.7.3-P3 on the Auths, and 9.8.1-P1 on the resolvers.
>>  
>> We currently do not use a root hints file – If we put a hints file in named.conf, then will named will use it, rather than the compiled in hints?
> 
> Yes.

But is also doesn't matter *that* much if you don't bother. As long as you can reach one of the other 12 root servers you will get a response to your priming query and everything will still work.
Also, the address is changing on the 3rd, but the old addresses will still be operational for 6 months…

W


> 
> Chris Buxton
> BlueCat Networks
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