[151695] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Quad-A records in Network Solutions ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arturo Servin)
Wed Mar 28 17:25:50 2012
From: Arturo Servin <arturo.servin@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F736382.2030101@fluidhosting.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:23:41 +0200
To: John T. Yocum <john.yocum@fluidhosting.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Another reason to not use them.
Seriusly, if they cannot expend some thousands of dollars =
(because it shouldn't be more than that) in "touching code, (hopefully) =
testing that code, deploying it, training customer support staff to =
answer questions, updating documentation, etc." I cannot take them as a =
serious provider for my names.
Regards,
.as
On 28 Mar 2012, at 21:16, John T. Yocum wrote:
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> On 3/28/2012 12:13 PM, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote:
>> I'm not convinced. What you mention is real, but the code they need =
is
>> little more than a regular expression that can be found on Google and =
a
>> 20-line script for testing lames. And a couple of weeks of testing, =
and
>> I think I'm exaggerating.
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>> If they don't want to offer support for it, they can just put up some
>> disclaimer.
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>> regards,
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>> Carlos
>>=20
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>> On 3/28/12 3:55 PM, David Conrad wrote:
>>> On Mar 28, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote:
>>>> I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories, but, c'mon. For a =
provisioning
>>>> system, an AAAA record is just a fragging string, just like any =
other
>>>> DNS record. How difficult to support can it be ?
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>>> Of course it is more than a string. It requires touching code, =
(hopefully) testing that code, deploying it, training customer support =
staff to answer questions, updating documentation, etc. Presumably =
Netsol did the cost/benefit analysis and decided the potential increase =
in revenue generated by the vast hordes of people demanding IPv6 (or the =
potential lost in revenue as the vast hordes transfer away) didn't =
justify the expense. Simple business decision.
>>>=20
>>> Regards,
>>> -drc
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>>=20
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> That's assuming their system is sanely or logically designed. It could =
be a total disaster of code, which makes adding such a feature a major =
pain.
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> --John
