The limit of 6 nameservers is in the OpenSRS database - adding two extra
fields wont allow you to place that information anywhere. I'm escalating
this to get this added.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of JB Segal
> Sent: November 28, 2000 12:41 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: 8 Name Servers?
>
>
> Anyone? Please? I /need/ to be able to handle 8 nameservers or
> else I will be
> unable to go ahead with the whole transition I'm hoping to make
> away from NSI
> to OpenSRS.
>
> I see no reason why the 6 nameserver limitation should be anything other
> than in the scripts (and I even understand why to put it in the scripts -
> the real limitation is arbitrary, annoying and difficult to explain and
> keeping the number of nameservers a customer can enter initially on the
> low side makes dissatisfaction much less likely) but I really do need
> confirmation before I put money in my account to do real registrations.
>
> Thanks,
> JB
>
> Quoth JB Segal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > I'll just copy my earlier correspondence below, rather than try
> to summarize it.
> > Any comments are welcome.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > JB
> >
> > Original question:
> >
> > Greetings...
> > All the various vebforms I've found - both on
> > http://resellers-test.opensrs.net/
> > and
> > cgi-bin/register.cgi?action=register_new
> > and such, allow only 6 nameservers.
> > I know, through great bloody fights with NSI on this topic,
> that the limitations
> > on nameservers in their software is NOT the DNS limitation of
> one UDP packet,
> > but rather a character count by NICName -
> > jb@muppet:/u0/jb/perforce/ntp> whois "host
> > YD.AKAMAI.COM"@whois.networksolutions.com
> > [No name] (YDF-HST)
> >
> > Hostname: YD.AKAMAI.COM
> > Address: 209.189.112.39
> >
> > such that there can be 8 7 character nameservers.
> > (see http://www.apocalypse.org/~jailbait/#nicrant for my
> not-so-polite take
> > on it...)
> >
> > Here at akamai, we believe in redundancy and I need to be able
> to register
> > all 8 servers for certain domains.
> >
> > Will it be a problem if I mod the scripts to accept/send 8? If so, why?
> >
> > Thanks very much,
> > JB
> >
> > Response from 'Frank Lemire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>': (Thanks, Frank!)
> >
> > JB,
> >
> > Our scripts are only built to handle 6 nameserver hosts. You
> may be able to
> > take the documention for our API and add into the code the
> ability to send the
> > 7th and 8th nameserver, but to be honest, you're the first
> person to ask, so I
> > really cant say for sure. You may want to check with the
> dev-list - our
> > mailing list for developers, which you can find at :
> > http://www.opensrs.org/archives/mailing.index.shtml
> > =============
> > End forwarded messages.
> > (Looking at the reg_system.cgi script, changing 6 to 8 would be easy.
> > But what will this break?)
> > 356: # encode the nameserver info and pass it to the next form
> > 357: if ($custom_nameservers) {
> > 358: foreach $num (1..6) {
> > 359: $fqdn = $in{"fqdn$num"};
> > 360: if ($fqdn) {
> > 361: $nameservers .= "$fqdn<br>\n";
> > 362: $HTML{NAMESERVER_INFO} .= "<input
> type=hidden name=\"fqdn$num\" value=\"" . encode($fqdn) . "\">\n";
> > 363: }
> > 364: }
> > 365:
> > 366: $HTML{NAMESERVERS} = <<EOF;
> > 367:<tr><td colspan=2 align=center><b>Nameserver
> Information</b></td></tr>
> > 368:<tr><td colspan=2 align=center>$nameservers</td></tr>
> > 369:EOF
> > 370: }
> >
>
> --
> JB Segal [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Systems Engineer 617-250-3649 800-606-8292 617-283-2675 (Cell)
> Akamai Technologies, 500 Technology Square, Cambridge MA 02139
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