[dns-operations] Advisory - L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET changing to 199.7.83.42 on 2007-11-01

[Sebastian Castro Avila]

Mark Andrews wrote:
>> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Kim Davies wrote:
>>> This is advance notice that there is a scheduled change to the IP
>>> address for one of the authorities listed for the DNS root zone. The
>>> change is to L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET, which is administered by ICANN.
>> Why the change?
> 
> 	It puts it in its own /24.  Look at the whois for the
> 	old and new addresses.
> 

Probably they are preparing to deploy anycast, using their own /24.

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