While this might not be terribly exciting unless you’re a DNS geek ..
IEDR have changed one of their nameservers.
Banba is no more.
Well it’s still there .. .. it’s just not in the root anymore:
eg.
dig +trace log.ie
; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> +trace log.ie
;; global options: +cmd
. 518400 IN NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
;; Received 464 bytes from 81.17.240.194#53(81.17.240.194) in 3 ms
ie. 172800 IN NS d.iedr.ie.
ie. 172800 IN NS gns2.domainregistry.ie.
ie. 172800 IN NS gns1.domainregistry.ie.
ie. 172800 IN NS a.iedr.ie.
ie. 172800 IN NS b.iedr.ie.
ie. 172800 IN NS ns3.ns.esat.net.
ie. 172800 IN NS c.iedr.ie.
ie. 172800 IN NS ns-ie.nic.fr.
;; Received 413 bytes from 202.12.27.33#53(M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 256 ms
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This means that IEDR are no longer relying on UCD for DNS services.
The real impact of this change? Neglible.
They’re still using both Esat BT and AFNIC for some DNS services, while they’re using NetNod, UltraDNS and themselves for the others.
