[afripv6-discuss] Fwd: Re: [afnog] AAAA records to be added for root servers

[Alain Patrick AINA]

On Monday 31 December 2007 06:05:55 pm Barbara Roseman wrote:
> apologies for cross-posting...
>
> On 4 February 2008, IANA will add AAAA records for the IPv6 addresses
> of the four root servers whose operators have requested it. A
> technical analysis of inserting IPv6 records into the root has been
> done by a joint working group of ICANN's Root Server System Advisory
> Committee and Security and Stability Advisory Committee, a report of
> which can be found at http://www.icann.org/committees/security/
> sac018.pdf. Network operators should take whatever steps they feel
> appropriate to prepare for the inclusion of AAAA records in response
> to root queries.

done for six instead of four as announced.

; <<>> DiG 9.4.1-P1 <<>> +edns=0 @A.root-servers.net . ns
; (2 servers found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 65029
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 13, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 20
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;.                              IN      NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
.                       518400  IN      NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       198.41.0.4
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      AAAA    2001:503:ba3e::2:30
B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       192.228.79.201
C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       192.33.4.12
D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       128.8.10.90
E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       192.203.230.10
F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       192.5.5.241
F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      AAAA    2001:500:2f::f
G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       192.112.36.4
H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       128.63.2.53
H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      AAAA    2001:500:1::803f:235
I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       192.36.148.17
J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       192.58.128.30
J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      AAAA    2001:503:c27::2:30
K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       193.0.14.129
K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      AAAA    2001:7fd::1
L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       199.7.83.42
M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       202.12.27.33
M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      AAAA    2001:dc3::35

;; Query time: 634 msec
;; SERVER: 2001:503:ba3e::2:30#53(2001:503:ba3e::2:30)
;; WHEN: Wed Feb  6 09:08:09 2008
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 615


and the new root hint is available at : 
ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/named.root


K-root is monitoring v6 queries: 
http://ripe.net/news/k-root-aaaa-announcement.html


cheers

--alain

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