named.root

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:41:14 -0800
> From: Doug Barton <dougb at 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 at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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