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[dns-wg] When did ns-v6.ripe.net become a CNAME?

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Romeo Zwart romeo.zwart at ripe.net
Wed Apr 17 20:32:39 CEST 2013

Hi Chris,

Thanks for drawing our attention to this.

On 13/04/17 17:40 , Chris Thompson wrote:
> Can anyone say when ns-v6.ripe.net became a CNAME (target ns.ripe.net),
> which makes it a rather bad idea to have an NS record pointing to it?

The cname was introduced in March 2012. It has been corrected.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

Best regards,

Romeo


> We (due credit: Tony Finch) have just discovered that some strange
> resolving glitches were due to 0.3.6.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa having such
> an NS record. The Janet NOC have been informed and hopefully will fix.

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