Thankyou for asking. I do care for the health of the root-servers. Many say there is only one root but they forget to mention which one. All root-servers try to keep in sync somehow. Right now root-servers.net is not in sync with its zone file. If the reason should be a natural desaster of any kind then Public-Root would be obliged to offer publishing the zone file, without asking any undue questions and without making any undue statements. Everything my be discussed on a private channel. I also noticed there is a major difference between the old and the new zone file. Could this be the reason why there was no update on the servers? I tried to load the root-zone file on my personal root-server and did not live through any problems but right now my server is IPv4 only. To spare search and debug, here is the diff: (please forgive the long list) # SOA(".","2005090200","A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.","NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM.","1800","900","604800","86400"). ADD: A.DNS.BR AAAA 2001:12FF:0:0:0:0:0:10 ADD: E.DNS.JP AAAA 2001:200:0:1:0:0:0:4 ADD: C.DNS.TW AAAA 2001:238:800:1:0:0:0:1 ADD: D.DNS.JP AAAA 2001:240:0:0:0:0:0:53 ADD: F.DNS.JP AAAA 2001:2F8:0:100:0:0:0:153 ADD: DNS1.THNIC.CO.TH AAAA 2001:3C8:1209:1:0:0:0:22 ADD: NS.AMNIC.NET AAAA 2001:4D00:0:0:0:0:0:90 ADD: NS-EXT.ISC.ORG AAAA 2001:4F8:0:2:0:0:0:13 ADD: D.EXT.NIC.FR AAAA 2001:4F8:0:2:0:0:0:8 ADD: NS-US1.NIC.AT AAAA 2001:4F8:4:B:0:0:0:202 ADD: NS4.NIC.COOP AAAA 2001:502:100E:0:0:0:0:106 ADD: D.DNS.LU AAAA 2001:502:100E:0:0:0:0:251 ADD: NSD.NIC.UK AAAA 2001:502:100E:0:0:0:0:44 ADD: NS1.NIC.COOP AAAA 2001:502:D399:0:0:0:0:106 ADD: A.DNS.LU AAAA 2001:502:D399:0:0:0:0:251 ADD: NSA.NIC.UK AAAA 2001:502:D399:0:0:0:0:44 ADD: B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET AAAA 2001:503:231D:0:0:0:2:30 ADD: A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET AAAA 2001:503:A83E:0:0:0:2:30 ADD: F.NIC.DE AAAA 2001:608:6:0:0:0:0:5 ADD: NS-ZA.RIPE.NET AAAA 2001:610:240:0:53:0:0:193 ADD: NS-SEC.RIPE.NET AAAA 2001:610:240:0:53:0:0:4 ADD: DOMREG.NIC.CH AAAA 2001:620:0:0:0:0:0:4 ADD: MERAPI.SWITCH.CH AAAA 2001:620:0:0:0:0:0:5 ADD: NS2.UNIVIE.AC.AT AAAA 2001:628:453:4302:0:0:0:53 ADD: Z.NIC.DE AAAA 2001:628:453:4905:0:0:0:53 ADD: NS0.JA.NET AAAA 2001:630:0:8:0:0:0:14 ADD: NS0.JA.NET AAAA 2001:630:0:9:0:0:0:14 ADD: NS4.NIC.UK AAAA 2001:630:181:35:0:0:0:83 ADD: B.HOSTING.NIC.FR AAAA 2001:660:3005:1:0:0:1:2 ADD: B.NIC.FR AAAA 2001:660:3005:1:0:0:1:2 ADD: C.NIC.FR AAAA 2001:660:3006:1:0:0:1:1 ADD: NS2.DNS.PT AAAA 2001:690:A80:4001:0:0:0:100 ADD: A.NS.SE AAAA 2001:698:9:301:0:0:0:53 ADD: BRUSSELS.NS.DNS.BE AAAA 2001:6A8:3C60:0:0:0:0:BE ADD: F.NS.SE AAAA 2001:6B0:7:0:0:0:0:53 ADD: G.NS.SE AAAA 2001:6B0:8:1:0:0:0:53 ADD: DNS.NIC.IT AAAA 2001:760:4000:1F5:0:0:0:5 ADD: NSIT.GARR.NET AAAA 2001:760:FFFF:FFFF:0:0:0:CA ADD: NS3.NS.ESAT.NET AAAA 2001:7C8:2:A:0:0:0:64 ADD: NS.ATI.TN AAAA 2001:970:1:1:0:0:0:10 ADD: A.NASK.PL AAAA 2001:A10:1:1:0:0:0:44 ADD: NS6.IEDR.IE AAAA 2001:BB0:CCC3:0:0:0:0:2 ADD: D.DNS.TW AAAA 2001:C50:FFFF:1:0:0:0:230 ADD: A.DNS.TW AAAA 2001:CD8:800:0:0:0:0:8 ADD: SEC3.APNIC.NET AAAA 2001:DC0:1:0:4777:0:0:140 ADD: A.DNS.JP AAAA 2001:DC4:0:0:0:0:0:1 ADD: G.DNS.KR AAAA 2001:DC5:A:0:0:0:0:1 ADD: NS.CNC.AC.CN AAAA 2001:DC7:0:0:0:0:0:1 ADD: DNS2.CNNIC.NET.CN AAAA 2001:DC7:1000:0:0:0:0:1 ADD: E.DNS.KR AAAA 2001:DCC:5:0:0:0:0:100 Kind regards, Peter and Karin Dambier bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 08:07:54AM -1000, Randy Bush wrote:
why do you care?
because root server status is one measure of internet infrastructure status and stability.
yes it is... and having hundreds/thousands of folks checking has its own set of issues. I note that Peter was kind enough to show that all the root servers he was able to reach - AGREED - on the serial number they were using.
why do you want to imply that caring that a root server does not respond is inappropriate?
does not respond from where? after all, one does not have to reach -all- the root servers. Getting to one is sufficent.
that said, Peter has his own "root-servers" and so my question to him was why he should care about other folks root servers.
randy
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