[dns-operations] New addresses for b.root-servers.net

[Geoff Huston]

> On 3 Jun 2023, at 3:44 am, Robert Story <rstory at ant.isi.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Fri 2023-06-02 09:33:20-0700 Manu wrote:
>> On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 9:35 AM Robert Story <rstory at ant.isi.edu>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> It seems those are live and ready to use, but I did not see in the
>> announcement that people could start updating their root zone before
>> 2023-11-27 and be sure to receive the same service level than with
>> the old addresses.
>> 
>> Could you clarify that those are indeed good to go and there is no
>> need to wait for the renumbering date to update root.hints?
>> Would it be worth clarifying this on the LACNIC announcement?
> 
> We are indeed testing with the new addresses, but it will not be
> considered  production until 2023-11-27. The addresses and/or routes
> may have brief or extended outages, so I wouldn't recommend switching
> anything ahead of our announced dates for the cut-over.
> 

If the aim is to have the server operating with IP addresses under a
different RPKI TA, then why don’t you just migrate the addresses
to the intended RIR?

Geoff