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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Sat Dec 15 17:13:47 2012
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <20121215215846.3F69F2D13CFC@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 17:13:22 -0500
To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 15, 2012, at 4:58 PM, Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote:
>> I realise that keeping the old IP functional for some time is =
important
>> for all the static configurations. But does it matter if a dynamic =
list
>> is updated "real time" without much advance warning ?
>=20
> 3 weeks is not a lot of "advance warning".
3 weeks is plenty for a service that in 6 months you may see degraded to =
12/13 capacity if you haven't properly maintained it AND it is used for =
recursive service. (trusting a referral from a root or sub-root =
delegation to the root is crazy!).
I could only wish my automobile would notify me 6 months of its =
impending failure should I take no action...
Oh, and you can just download the root zone from =
ftp://ftp.internic.net/domain/root.zone ...
- Jared=
