Also, this appears to be par for the course for the last two IP Address changes on root-servers.net. That's why they keep the old address online for at least six months after the official change. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Matthew Newton <mcn4@leicester.ac.uk>wrote:
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 04:42:46PM +0000, Nick Hilliard wrote:
On 13/12/2012 22:54, Jason Castonguay wrote:
Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January.
You've just given 3 weeks notice for a component change in one of the few critical part of the Internet's infrastructure, at a time when most
I think that /was/ the advance notification - you've got 6 months :)
"The old address will continue to work for at least six months after the transition, but will ultimately be retired from service."
Cheers,
Matthew
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