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F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET IPv6 address has changed.

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Mark Andrews

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Feb 4, 2008, 8:45:50 PM2/4/08
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With the official deployment of IPv6 addresses for the
root servers, F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET IPv6 address changed.

The old address, 2001:500::1035, is no longer valid and
will be turn off at some point. The new address is
2001:500:2f::f.

This will only affect users that have deliberately overridden
the responses returned by the root servers.

Mark
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Danny Mayer

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Feb 4, 2008, 9:32:20 PM2/4/08
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Mark Andrews wrote:
> With the official deployment of IPv6 addresses for the
> root servers, F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET IPv6 address changed.
>
> The old address, 2001:500::1035, is no longer valid and
> will be turn off at some point. The new address is
> 2001:500:2f::f.
>

I noticed that this afternoon. Cute!

Danny

Stephane Bortzmeyer

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Feb 5, 2008, 3:06:26 AM2/5/08
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On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 12:45:50PM +1100,
Mark Andrews <Mark_A...@isc.org> wrote
a message of 17 lines which said:

> The old address, 2001:500::1035, is no longer valid and
> will be turn off at some point. The new address is
> 2001:500:2f::f.

Too bad, the older was more funny.


Chris Thompson

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Feb 5, 2008, 9:32:38 AM2/5/08
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So how do people pick interface-id parts of IPv6 addresses for their
nameservers? (Half-serious question, as I expect to have to choose
some for our authoritative nameservers soon.)

I see that a. & j.root-servers.net, and a. & b.gtld-servers.net all use
[prefix]::2:30. h.root-servers.net's 2001:500:1::803f:235 is just its
IPv4 address 128.63.2.53. And is the last octet in m.root-servers.net's
2001:dc3::35 a play on port 53 (hex 35)?

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Chris Thompson
Email: ce...@cam.ac.uk


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