2008-02-05 - News - Chris Thompson
Six of the thirteen root nameservers are now advertising IPv6 addresses. There is some background information about this change at
There is also a new root hints file with these addresses added, and the copy at
http://jackdaw.cam.ac.uk/ipreg/nsconfig/db.cache
has been updated.
Of course, the IPv6 addresses are not useful if your nameserver does not (yet) have IPv6 connectivity, but they should do no harm, and on general principles it's inadvisable to let one's root hints file get too out of date.