wrong IP for a root server

Pete Ehlke pde at rfc822.net
Tue Jun 20 17:00:16 UTC 2006


On Tue Jun 20, 2006 at 17:56:19 +0200, Peter Dambier wrote:
>Maria Iano wrote:
>> This morning, on one of my name servers I noticed this error message (time in GMT):
>> 
>> 20-Jun-2006 07:55:36.245 default: warning: check_hints: A records for B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET class 1 do not match hint records
>> 
>> When I perform a lookup of B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET against this name server, it gives me no answer:
>> 
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>> 
>> I've checked against 8 other name servers of ours and have not seen this issue on any of those - they all have the correct IP for B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. I'm very glad to see that my name server does not seem to trust this bad A record for B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
>> 
>> Any idea how/why this happened? Anything I should do?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Maria
>> 
>
>
>I just tried
>
>host_look("128.9.0.107","128.9.0.107","2148073579").
>host_name("128.9.0.107","ns1.isi.edu").
>
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>
>No harm done. Seems isi.edu have their own internal root and they are
>a copy of one of the root-server.net.
>
>
b's address was changed in January of 2004. 

http://www.root-servers.org/news/new-ip-b.html



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