[dns-operations] root zone archive

Matt Larson matt at kahlerlarson.org
Fri Sep 18 14:56:23 UTC 2015


> On Sep 17, 2015, at 6:46 PM, Jeremy C. Reed <reed at reedmedia.net> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2015, Wessels, Duane wrote:
>>> On Sep 17, 2015, at 11:50 AM, Jeremy C. Reed <reed at reedmedia.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> http://bikeshed.isc.org/~jreed/root-servers-history/root-nameservers.data
>>> (I didn't check it much though.)
>> 
>> Cool data, Jeremy.
>> 
>> The 1999-06-03 data could be incorrect, however:
>> 
>>    1999-06-03 J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 192.58.128.30
>> 
>> J didn't have that address until February 2002.
> 
> Okay, the file's timestamp is Nov  5  2002.

That is indeed the date that J changed IPs: please see https://www.nanog.org/mailinglist/mailarchives/old_archive/2002-11/msg00035.html.  I would probably have been the one from Verisign to make an announcement, as well, but I didn't, and the reason is easy for me to remember: that date is also my first child's birthday, so I was otherwise occupied.  :-)

Matt





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