From: Pim van Riezen [mailto:pi@vuurwerk.nl] Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 3:59 AM

On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:

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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.

To be honest, yes it wuold've saved me some extra frustration if I had known there would be such issues. Yes, a test situation is ideal to get these changes figured out. I just counted on it to be a trivial upgrade and it wasn't.

Repeat after me; There is no such thing as a trivial upgrade.