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Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net
From: Randy Bush <randy () psg com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:46:41 -1000
But the new policy does allow normal people to do something they couldn't otherwise do: have a working .com/.net Web site and e-mail in a few minutes. That's good for legitimate domain owner happiness. By far the number one question customers ask my (hosting) company when they sign up is "When will it start working?". It's almost embarrassing to tell these poor people "ahem... it probably won't work for a day or so, and it's a bit random -- your friends might find it works before you do, so please don't complain if that happens", etc. It's certainly true that a day's wait isn't the end of the world, but these people are anxious, and it is a source of confusion, bother and worry for them.
bingo! and the TTL issue is almost entirely NS RRs, as Sam Stickland <sam_ml () spacething org> pointed out in the article from the usual suspects at mit/lcs, <http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/papers/dns-imw2001.html>. of course, almost all date in the gtlds are NS RRs, so the worry about TTL crank-down holds, though just for silly gtld servers. then again, they're paid to serve. randy
Current thread:
- Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net, (continued)
- Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net Duane Wessels (Jul 23)
- Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net william(at)elan.net (Jul 23)
- Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net Paul Vixie (Jul 24)
- Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net Randy Bush (Jul 24)
- Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net Robert E. Seastrom (Jul 24)
- Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net Matt Larson (Jul 14)
- Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net Chris Brenton (Jul 22)
- Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net Randy Bush (Jul 22)
- Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net Daniel Karrenberg (Jul 22)
- Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net Richard Cox (Jul 22)
- Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net Randy Bush (Jul 22)
- Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net Richard Cox (Jul 23)
- Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net Christian Kuhtz (Jul 23)
- Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net Daniel Senie (Jul 23)
- Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine (Jul 23)