Changes to RIPE DNS Infrastructure

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Apologies for duplicate messages

Dear Colleagues

As part of our ongoing preparations for DNSSEC deployment., we have 
recently made some changes to the RIPE NCC DNS Server infrastructure.

Our main DNS server (ns.ripe.net) held a significant amount of primary 
in-addr.arpa zones and secondary copies of many zones on behalf of other 
parties. We have split this into several servers as follows.

·	ns.ripe.net – This contains no primary, but many secondary zones.
·	ns-pri.ripe.net – This contains all zones for which RIPE is primary.
·	ns-[CountryCode].ripe.net – This contains all Country Code Top level 
Domain (CCTLD) zones for which RIPE is secondary.
·	ns-sec.ripe.net – We will deploy this server soon, it currently contains 
no zones.

We are working towards the following:

·	ns.ripe.net -  This will contain /16 IPv4 reverse and /32 IPv6 secondary 
reverse zones.
·	ns-pri.ripe.net - This will contain all zones for which RIPE is primary.
·	ns-[CountryCode].ripe.net - This will contain ccTLD zones for which RIPE 
is secondary.
·	ns-sec.ripe.net -  This will contain all zones for which RIPE is 
secondary (excluding those on ns andns-tld).

We will soon contact users to arrange moving zones from ns to ns-sec.

This information was correct on 12 April 2005.

Regards

Brett Carr
System Engineer
RIPE NCC