[dns-operations] B-Root to be renumbered in October

[Paul Hoffman]

On 5 Sep 2017, at 1:02, Stefan Förster wrote:

> * Wes Hardaker <wjhns1 at hardakers.net>:
>> To help support anycast with more resilient routing, the IPv4 address
>> for b.root-servers.net will be renumbered to 199.9.14.201, effective
>> 2017-10-24.
>
> Not having too much experience running recursive resolvers, I found 
> the
> article at https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01309 and it seems that, 
> apart
> from perhaps distributing a new root hints file to get rid of 
> checkhints
> warnings, this should not be an operational problem.

Correct.

> Is there anything I'm missing?

If you update your resolver software after the change, you should stop 
seeing any warnings.

--Paul Hoffman