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Re: Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January.
From: Walter Keen <walter.keen () rainierconnect net>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:12:00 -0800 (PST)
If I had to guess, I would guess that renumbering is likely required to get it into a more portable address assignment from a multi-homing perspective. Look at the whois information below If I were hosting a root server or something similar, I would certainly want it segregated enough that I could manage multi-homing for that address prefix outside of my other networks. In this case, I'd assume UMDNET-1 may have monetary or administrative policies regarding the ability to be multi-homed and the degree to which it can be, however providing multiple links to UMD-ROOTD-NET is likely much easier because those decisions (or cost of connections) don't necessarily need to affect UMDNET-1 NetRange: 128.8.0.0 - 128.8.255.255 CIDR: 128.8.0.0/16 OriginAS: AS27 NetName: UMDNET-1 NetHandle: NET-128-8-0-0-1 Parent: NET-128-0-0-0-0 NetType: Direct Assignment RegDate: 1984-08-01 Updated: 2011-05-03 Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-128-8-0-0-1 NetRange: 199.7.91.0 - 199.7.91.255 CIDR: 199.7.91.0/24 OriginAS: AS6059, AS27, AS10886 NetName: UMD-ROOTD-NET NetHandle: NET-199-7-91-0-1 Parent: NET-199-0-0-0-0 NetType: Direct Assignment RegDate: 2007-12-07 Updated: 2012-03-20 Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-199-7-91-0-1 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Thomas" <mike () mtcc com> To: "Matthew Newton" <mcn4 () leicester ac uk> Cc: nanog () nanog org Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 8:59:19 AM Subject: Re: Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January. Matthew Newton 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 mostI 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."
So really stupid question, and hopefully it's just me, do I need to do something on my servers? Second question: I know that renumbering is important in the abstract, but is there really an overwhelming reason why renumbering the root servers is critical? Shouldn't they all be in PI space for starters? Mike
Current thread:
- Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January. Jason Castonguay (Dec 13)
- Re: Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January. Nick Hilliard (Dec 14)
- Re: Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January. Matthew Newton (Dec 14)
- Re: Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January. Mike Hale (Dec 14)
- Re: Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January. Michael Thomas (Dec 14)
- Re: Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January. Joseph Jackson (Dec 14)
- Re: Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January. Christopher Morrow (Dec 14)
- Re: Re: Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address Joe Greco (Dec 14)
- Re: Re: Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address Christopher Morrow (Dec 14)
- Re: Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January. Matthew Newton (Dec 14)
- Re: Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January. Walter Keen (Dec 14)
- Re: Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January. bmanning (Dec 14)
- Re: Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January. Bill Woodcock (Dec 14)
- Re: Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January. Joe Abley (Dec 14)
- Re: Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January. Jean-Francois Mezei (Dec 14)
- Re: Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January. Julien Goodwin (Dec 15)
- Re: Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January. Nick Hilliard (Dec 14)
- Re: Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January. Nick Hilliard (Dec 14)
- Re: Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January. Jay Ashworth (Dec 14)
- Re: Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January. Joe Antkowiak (Dec 14)
- Re: Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January. Nick Hilliard (Dec 14)
- Re: Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January. Joe Abley (Dec 14)