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

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:29:34PM -0700,
 Kim Davies <kim.davies at icann.org> wrote 
 a message of 41 lines which said:

> The new IPv4 address for this authority is:
> 
>     199.7.83.42

Someone just whispered in my ear that there is a DNS problem.

% dig -x 199.7.83.42

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> -x 199.7.83.42
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 58652
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;42.83.7.199.in-addr.arpa.      IN      PTR

;; Query time: 1398 msec
;; SERVER: 82.151.90.1#53(82.151.90.1)
;; WHEN: Thu Oct 25 20:27:27 2007
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 42