[dns-operations] Planned IN-ADDR.ARPA Nameserver Change

[Joe Abley]

On 2011-02-17, at 10:38, Chris Thompson wrote:

> On Jan 31 2011, Joe Abley wrote:
> [...]
>> On Wednesday 2010-02-16 processing will begin to change the nameserver
>> set to the following, as described in RFC 5855:
>> 
>> A.IN-ADDR-SERVERS.ARPA (operated by ARIN)
>> B.IN-ADDR-SERVERS.ARPA (operated by ICANN)
>> C.IN-ADDR-SERVERS.ARPA (operated by AfriNIC)
>> D.IN-ADDR-SERVERS.ARPA (operated by LACNIC)
>> E.IN-ADDR-SERVERS.ARPA (operated by APNIC)
>> F.IN-ADDR-SERVERS.ARPA (operated by RIPE NCC)
> 
> I see that not only has this happened, but that IN-ADDR.ARPA is now signed
> as well. There is more info at http://in-addr-transition.icann.org/ as Joe
> indicated in the original post.

Indeed. The IN-ADDR.ARPA zone has not yet been dropped from the root servers, so the work is not quite complete. We expect to insert a DS record for IN-ADDR.ARPA into the ARPA zone a week or so after the last root server drops the zone. At that time all ARPA children will be signed.


Joe