[rssac] k.root-servers.net Changing DNS Software at on 19.2.2003

Daniel,

Most of the root servers are also servers for the .arpa zone

Does this proposed change for K as a root server also imply a change for
K as a .arpa server?


thanks,

   Geoff



At 08:50 AM 2/14/2003 +0100, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:
>As announced previously k.root-servers.net will start running nsd 1.0.2-rel.
>The changeover will start at 0900UTC on Wednesday 19.2.2003.
>Between 0900 and 0930 all instances of K will be sequentially cut over.
>This way there will be no service interruption.  During the cut-over
>period K will answer either using bind8 or nsd.  After 0930 K will
>answer only using nsd.  K will support identification of software and
>instance via id.server and version.server in class CHAOS as per
>draft-ietf-dnsop-serverid.
>
>This change is designed to increase the diversity of software in the
>root name server system, the lack of which is widely considered to be a
>potential vulnerability.  The nsd software has been designed from
>scratch specifically as an authoritative name server.  It has no design
>commonalities with bind, the currently prevalent DNS implementation.
>In addition to that nsd provides a significant increase
>in the performance reserve of k.root-servers.net.
>
>Please report any anomalies with k.root-servers.net service to
><ops at ripe.net> as usual.
>
>nsd can be found at http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/nsd/index.html.