F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET IPv6 address has changed.

[Chris Thompson]

On Feb 5 2008, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

>On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 12:45:50PM +1100,
> Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews at isc.org> wrote 
> a message of 17 lines which said:
>
>> 	The old address, 2001:500::1035, is no longer valid and
>> 	will be turn off at some point.  The new address is
>> 	2001:500:2f::f.
>
>Too bad, the older was more funny.

So how do people pick interface-id parts of IPv6 addresses for their
nameservers? (Half-serious question, as I expect to have to choose
some for our authoritative nameservers soon.)

I see that a. & j.root-servers.net, and a. & b.gtld-servers.net all use
[prefix]::2:30. h.root-servers.net's 2001:500:1::803f:235 is just its
IPv4 address 128.63.2.53. And is the last octet in m.root-servers.net's
2001:dc3::35 a play on port 53 (hex 35)?

-- 
Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 at cam.ac.uk