[66326] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Dawson)
Wed Jan 7 19:49:31 2004
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 16:48:51 -0800 (PST)
From: Jim Dawson <jdawson@navi.net>
Reply-To: jdawson@flexpop.net
To: Ian Mason <nanog@ian.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20040107235230.03148218@imbolc.ian.co.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Ian Mason wrote:
> At Wed, 7 Jan 2004 17:46:23 -0500, Matt Larson wrote:
>
> >VeriSign Naming and Directory Services will change the serial number
> >format and "minimum" value in the .com and .net zones' SOA records on
> >or shortly after 9 February 2004.
^^^^^^^^
>
> [snip]
>
>
> Matt, was it not possible for Verisign to give more than 30 hours notice of
^^^^^^^^^
> these changes? This is an Internet-wide change that will very likely break
> some systems somewhere. Surely more notice would have been reasonable.
I'd say more than 30 days is enough for what amounts to a trivial change
that really only affects their slave name servers.
Jim
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