Chuck,
Though it pains me to say it, NSI has a number of features that make it
much easier to manage our networks.
We have DNS servers hosts managed at network Solutions. NSI lets us set
up the hosts so that if anyone registers using our hosts, or changes an
an existing domain so that it uses our hosts, NSI sends an automatic
notification to the coordinator of that host. We also get a notification
if someone moves a domain AWAY from our hosts.
Having a heads-up on customers who don't tell us when/if they're moving
to/from our servers is is a Very Good Thing. We've been wanting to
implement our own cross-registry version of this for some time, but
Verisign-GRS doesn't seem to want to respond to our request to join the
TLD Zone File Access Program.
Having this kind of service within the registry database would seem to
be a big benefit. It shouldn't be too much of a change -- just an ENUM
in your hosts table that indicates whether the domain's tech contact
should be notified of changes that involve the host, then a function
hooked to the DNS server change functions to check the ENUM and possibly
send a notify message any time a change is made.
Probably only a few hours of work, no? ;)
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 03:29:22PM -0400, Charles Daminato wrote:
>
> Evren,
>
> I understand your point - just not something that was previously on the
> radar, so it'll have to go through the processes required to get it
> active. You'll hear more as this comes closer to fruition.
>
> Charles Daminato
> TUCOWS Product Manager
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
>
> > to my understanding; the admin contact is the person who should be able
> > to make changes on the domain. The billing contact should be getting the
> > warnings about the expiring domains etc. and the technical contact should
> > know if the owner is doing some changes etc.
> >
> > I do remember we were getting notifications from NSI when the owner is
> > making changes.
> >
> > Personally as a network administrator I refuse to configure the domain
> > names which doesnt have the email address of our hostmaster =) in our
> > nameservers.
> >
> > thanks anyway
> >
> > Evren
> >
> > On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Charles Daminato wrote:
> >
> > > Evren,
> > >
> > > Interesting point. It's something that will need to be developed from an
> > > idea and put into place, to ensure everyone's best interests are covered.
> > > There are many cases currently where the host would not be notified (say
> > > you're not the technical contact, even if you should be), or a domain is
> > > transfered across registrars willy nilly.
> > >
> > > We'll put it down as a definite future :)
> > >
> > > Charles Daminato
> > > TUCOWS Product Manager
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> > >
> > > > When the owner changes the name servers etc. of the domain why the
> > > > technical contact does not receive a notification? I believe it is
> > > > necessary because the person might change ISPs without telling anything to
> > > > the original ISP and we wouldnt even realize anything plus include the
> > > > wrong DNS information in our servers pointing to our web servers perhaps
> > > > which would cause all the users connected to our network would have stale
> > > > pages etc.
> > > >
> > > > Evren
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
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