Folks,
In the process of switching ISP's, I sent some updates off to InterNIC last
friday. The new SOA's are in place on all root servers except for
f.root-servers.net. Mail to hostmaster@internic.net yields no response
(who knows, they could be using f.....)
The domain name is cctec.com.
The correct answers are 207.87.243.20 and 207.87.243.60, not 206.21.31.xxx
as listed on f.
So who runs F, and how do I politely ask them to check and see if they
picked up their updates last Friday. Contact listed for root-servers.net
is hostmaster@internic.net.
At the risk of starting another flame war, does this make F the One FALSE
Root Server?
Eric
In <3.0.32.19970224171008.00727978@207.87.243.20>,
In the process of switching ISP's, I sent some updates off to InterNIC last
friday. The new SOA's are in place on all root servers except for
f.root-servers.net. Mail to hostmaster@internic.net yields no response
(who knows, they could be using f.....)
handler@jumpgate ~$ check_soa com. | grep F
F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET has serial number 1997021900
hostmaster@internic.net is only for updating your data on the master
root servers. The master root has performed the updates, but
F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET hasn't loaded new "COM." data since Wednesday
of last week. (Sorry, Paul).
So who runs F, and how do I politely ask them to check and see if they
picked up their updates last Friday. Contact listed for root-servers.net
is hostmaster@internic.net.
There currently isn't a designated interface for contacting the root
nameserver operators in case of external problems. Fortunately, it hasn't
been a major problem yet. The default reflex seems to be to send mail
to NANOG, which has worked so far.
It would be nice to have a designated mailing list / web page...
<URL:http://www.root-servers.net/> and <operators@root-servers.net>.
There could even be <a-operator@root-servers.net> through
<n-operator@root-servers.net> to reach admins of specific servers.
While I'm on that topic, it would be nice to have a mailing list for
technical issues relating to root nameservers, given that this really
isn't a NANOG topic. If there isn't one yet, I'd be more than happy
to set one up somewhere. (Anyone who suggests edns-operators will be
promptly laughed at.)
Might be simpler to just throw in a TXT record so that
dig any any f.root-servers.net
comes up with something useful.
Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting
Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-250-546-3049
http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com