On 24/04/2018 16:48, Jim Reid wrote: Hi Jim,
Anand, could you clarify what you mean by “no longer in use”? Has it gone from all the reverse zones that referenced it? Are no more queries for ns-v6.ripe.net hitting the ripe.net name servers?
There are no domain objects in the RIPE Database, with "ns-v6.ripe.net" in their "nserver" attributes. The domains that are using "ns.ripe.net", when queried for NS records, only return "ns.ripe.net" and not "ns-v6.ripe.net". Checking for queries for "ns-v6.ripe.net" on the all the ripe.net name servers isn't possible, because we don't have access to query logs of the servers that provide us with secondary DNS service. Even if we *could* look at the queries, and they showed queries for "ns-v6.ripe.net", it doesn't mean that the name is in use.
I’m wondering if the name might still be hard-wired into scripts or provisioning/testing tools.
It may be hard-wired in some scripts, and if so, they may produce an error. However, it is not used as the target of any NS records that we are aware of, so I don't expect any major outages. Regards, Anand