CommunityDNS asked to suspends service to old "L" Root IP space.

CommunityDNS suspends its contract with, and Anycast service to, EP.NET's 198.32.64.0/24 IP space.

Mr Bill Manning, Director EP.NET says "Our agreement, dated 01nov2007, specifies that CommunityDNS is authorized by EP.NET to announce the prefix 198.32.64.0/24 & provide certain other services, specifically, answering DNS queries on 198.32.64.12 with data provided from the authoritative ICANN/DoC root servers... and you are asked to turn down the service for now."

Service to the old L IP address (198.32.64.12) was popular with and average of 4500 queries per second (353 million per day) from users around the world, which will now go unanswered.

During an exchange on the IETF list existing ROOT operators (including Verisign, conducted research in this area,) and decided it is common and good practice to keep "old" Root addresses active for significant periods of time after a change, as users frequently continue to use the established address rather than update to a new address.

More about the role of a Root Server can be obtained from an interesting article published by ISOC.

The authoritative IANA/DoC Root Zone data was obtained by CommuntiyDNS from the B Root operator by arrangement with EP.NET. Before publication, the Root Zone data was also verified with data from a different Root Operator to ensure no corruption.

About CommunityDNS
After extensive development and testing by multiple DNS providers from various parts of the world, the Community DNS Anycast System was launched as a commercial service in June 2007. Today CommunityDNS receives billions of queries per day and is retained by "blue-chip" companies in the Internet world to provide a robust and secure service to their user community.

It is designed to act either as a secondary, Slave System to supplement and enhance existing DNS resolution infrastructure, or as a Master/Slave System for those DNS providers that want a complete DNS solution. The CommunityDNS Anycast System is cost effective, reliable, and secure providing unmatched performance results. Its expanding network of Anycast server clusters is designed to "localize" traffic while giving participating DNS operators secure control their own zones and data, as well as tools to monitor and react to DNS events. Currently CommunityDNS has contracts to support 104million (70%) of the world's registered domain names, worldwide.

Contact:
Bart P. Mackay at bart.mackay@communitydns.eu
URL www.communitydns.eu