Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:27:18 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Petri Helenius <petri@helenius.fi>, FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: named.root Message-ID: <20080206232718.6B9A94500E@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:41:14 PST." <47AA378A.1080701@FreeBSD.org>
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--==_Exmh_1202340438_51442P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:41:14 -0800 > From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> > > Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > Doug, > > > > This is both true and false because an IPv6 only DNS server (this may be > > an imaginary entity) > > It is. Modulo some theoretical exercise being performed by people who > are smart enough to know how to prime them already, there are no > IPv6-only name servers. Even though the root is ready now, only 112 of > the 281 TLDs have IPv6 glue of any sort. The IPv6-only Internet is a > long way away. > > Now everything I just said will become less true going forward, which > is why I said I will do the change request ASAP. But it's still not > urgent, and any impact that not doing the change tomorrow might have > is so minimal as to be basically immeasurable. Doug, I agree. That's why I said that it is not high-priority, but I wanted to make people aware that this was not just the usual case when a root server moves to a new address. I do suspect that there may be real IPv6 only DNS servers out there, but, if they exist, they are probably in China and will never point at the real root servers. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1202340438_51442P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFHqkJWkn3rs5h7N1ERAp2WAJ9r2SQp/W7q8c4v9UU83c9zvL2ewgCdHvNs LD5uhNrPKEYMFRfBVJ20zmU= =Otwe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1202340438_51442P--
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