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<div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">This is advance notice that there is a scheduled change to the IPv6 addresses in the Root Zone for the L root-server, also known as <span style="text-align: justify;">L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET, which is administered by
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The current IP addresses for the <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: start; widows: 1;">L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET</span> service are:<o:p></o:p></p>
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199.7.83.42<o:p></o:p></p>
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2001:500:3::42<o:p></o:p></p>
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As of March 23, 2016, the new IP addresses for the <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: start; widows: 1;">L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET</span> service will be:<o:p></o:p></p>
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199.7.83.42<o:p></o:p></p>
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2001:500:9f::42<o:p></o:p></p>
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The change will be implemented on the root zone on March 23, 2016 2100UTC, <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; widows: 1;"> however the new address is already operational.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; widows: 1;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="widows: 1;"><font face="Times">We encourage DNS infrastructure operators to update their DNS resolvers root "hints” file. </font></span></p>
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New hints files will be available at the following URLs once the change has been formally executed on <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify; widows: auto;">March 23, 2016</span>:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.internic.net/domain/named.root">http://www.internic.net/domain/named.root</a></li><li><a href="http://www.internic.net/domain/named.cache">http://www.internic.net/domain/named.cache</a></li></ul>
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