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. ^^^^^^^^
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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 -- See what ISP-Planet is saying about us! http://isp-planet.com/services/wholesalers/flexpop.html __________________________________________________________________ Jim Dawson jdawson@flexpop.net Flexpop/Navi.Net http://www.flexpop.net 618 NW Glisan St. Ste. 101 v. +1.503.517.8866 Portland, Or 97209 USA f. +1.503.517.8868 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~