[151701] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Quad-A records in Network Solutions ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Gallagher)
Wed Mar 28 20:25:47 2012
In-Reply-To: <1b1c34a7-1446-4f95-b8d6-9b642b1eabd2@email.android.com>
From: Mike Gallagher <mike@txih.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:19:10 -0500
To: Joseph Snyder <joseph.snyder@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>,
Arturo Servin <arturo.servin@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Doesn't netsol charge something crazy like $50/year per for domain services?=
If that is still the case sounds like ipv6 support for 250k is a drop in th=
e bucket :-). Not sure why any clueful DNS admin would still use netsol thou=
gh.
On Mar 28, 2012, at 5:55 PM, Joseph Snyder <joseph.snyder@gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree, but in a big company it generally would cost at least 10s of thou=
sands of dollars just for training alone. The time away from the phones that=
would have to be covered would exceed that. Let's say you had 8000 phone st=
aff and they were getting $10/be and training took an hour. That is 80k cove=
rage expenses alone. For a large company I would expect a project budget of a=
t least 250k minimal. And probably more if the company exceeds 50,000 employ=
ees.
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> Arturo Servin <arturo.servin@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Another reason to not use them.
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> Seriusly, if they cannot expend some thousands of dollars (because it s=
houldn't be more than that) in "touching code, (hopefully) testing that code=
, deploying it, training customer support staff to answer questions, updatin=
g documentation, etc." I cannot take them as a serious provider for my names=
..
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> Regards,
> .as
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> 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
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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, (hopeful=
ly) testing that code, deploying it, training customer support staff to answ=
er questions, updating documentation, etc. Presumably Netsol did the cost/be=
nefit analysis and decided the potential increase in revenue generated by th=
e vast hordes of people demanding IPv6 (or the potential lost in revenue as t=
he vast hordes transfer away) didn't justify the expense. Simple business de=
cision.
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>>>> Regards,
>>>> -drc
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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
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