Thanks Jeroen, I have passed it on. Joao Damas ISC On 27 Nov, 2003, at 22:27, Jeroen Massar wrote:

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ip6.arpa is, according to the root-servers.net boxes hosted on:

ip6.arpa. 172800 IN NS ARROWROOT.ARIN.NET. ip6.arpa. 172800 IN NS BUCHU.ARIN.NET. ip6.arpa. 172800 IN NS NS.APNIC.NET. ip6.arpa. 172800 IN NS NS.ICANN.ORG. ip6.arpa. 172800 IN NS NS.RIPE.NET. ip6.arpa. 172800 IN NS SVC00.APNIC.NET. ;; Received 241 bytes from 198.41.0.4#53(A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 97 ms

But:

$ dig @ARROWROOT.ARIN.NET ip6.arpa ns

; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>> @ARROWROOT.ARIN.NET ip6.arpa ns ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 22022 ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 13

;; QUESTION SECTION: ;ip6.arpa. IN NS

;; AUTHORITY SECTION: . 86400 IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 86400 IN NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 86400 IN NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 86400 IN NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 86400 IN NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 86400 IN NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 86400 IN NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 86400 IN NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 86400 IN NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 86400 IN NS J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 86400 IN NS K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 86400 IN NS L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 86400 IN NS M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.

;; Query time: 28 msec ;; SERVER: 198.133.199.110#53(ARROWROOT.ARIN.NET) ;; WHEN: Thu Nov 27 22:16:01 2003 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 445

There is a oddness here btw:

$ dig @aloe.arin.net arrowroot.arin.net

;; ANSWER SECTION: arrowroot.arin.net. 10800 IN A 63.146.182.189

BUT according to the .net servers:

$ dig @A.GTLD-SERVERS.net. arrowroot.arin.net

; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>> @A.GTLD-SERVERS.net. arrowroot.arin.net ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 16818 ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 8, ADDITIONAL: 8

;; QUESTION SECTION: ;arrowroot.arin.net. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION: arrowroot.arin.net. 172800 IN A 198.133.199.110

Which is the address that is used above and in queries, the arin.net version does work btw. But this does break many queries.

Btw ns.ripe.net reports:

ip6.arpa. 172800 IN NS ns.ripe.net. ip6.arpa. 172800 IN NS ns.apnic.net. ip6.arpa. 172800 IN NS ns.icann.org. ip6.arpa. 172800 IN NS tinnie.arin.net.

So please get these in sync as it is breaking stuff miracously.

Greets, Jeroen

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