2 Feb
2001
2 Feb
'01
9:59 a.m.
From: Joshua Goodall [mailto:joshua@roughtrade.net] Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 12:52 AM
I can understand the annoyance felt by a large hosting provider updating BIND in an emergency and finding more than just a security fix. Pim is, I guess, concerned that similar updates in future may have longer MTTR impact. Pete Elke's point about preproduction testing could perhaps be turned from a combative tone to the constructive without loss of information.
Isn't that why NSI is running a stealth master root server ... so they _are able_ to do pre-production testing of zone files? In the past few years, there were a lot of root server outages that would have been prevented by that practice.