Just FYI.. I have personally NAK'd 4 updates sent in by clients of mine which effected domains on my servers. The updates were technically correct (for auto-processing), but had the wrong information. internic conveniently ignored the NAK's, all of them. Phillip Vandry <vandry@Mlink.NET>@merit.edu on 10/16/98 09:37:59 AM Sent by: owner-nanog@merit.edu To: jamie@ais.net cc: markb@infi.net, nanog@merit.edu (bcc: CyberTech/CTCS) Subject: Re: WARNING: AOL is hosed (again)

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If yes to my second question, then the tracking numbers either need to be made much longer and randomized or a one time pass phrase (session key) needs to be added to the acknowlegement form.

You can actually set a domain name so that it cannot be changed, by any template, by any modification, correct guardian or NOT.

Sounds like a nonreversible setting to me. What if you need to change it? Anyway, I think that by default, the update goes through automatically, a positive acknoledgement is ignored (default behaviour) and a negative acknowledgement is honored. (Which means AOL should have been able to stop it). Then there is the setting where the update will not go through by default, and a positive acknowledgement is required. As to whether it all works as advertized (and PGP auth too?), who knows? -Phil