It should be noted that Verisign also takes the live registry down at
least once a quarter for up to four hours at a time.
I personally don't see any problems with the test system being unavailable
at times since we haven't needed it since January 2000. ;)
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, CDale wrote:
> Much easier, sure, but when Verisign goes down for whatever reason? I'm
> sure there is redundancy in their equipment, but not necessarily in their
> business practices. (: Anyhow, I do understand that this is a practical
> measure, but if I were OpenSRS, I'd think about the long run, and its
> future customers who are testing. At this point, I won't even let my
> lead tech touch the test system, lest something breaks. He can test it
> all when I finally have Full Access. (: I apologize if this is a horse
> that's already been beaten in the past, and these opinions are purely my
> own.
> Cindy
>
>
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Joseph McDonald wrote:
>
> >
> > The OpenSRS test environment contacts Verisign's test environment for
> > your tests. If you think about it, this makes sense. The alternative is
> > for the OpenSRS system to internally simulate the registry, or have a
> > test-harness which is has a different codebase from the production
> > system (not a very good idea ;-) ). Much better to change a few
> > hostnames in a conf file.
> >
> > regards,
> > -joe
> >
> > Tuesday, August 21, 2001, 4:08:06 PM, you wrote:
> >
> > C> Maybe I overlooked something while searching the site for this info, but
> > C> does anyone know how OpenSRS' test environment is related to Verisign's?
> > C> I would think that those would be separate, but I am new here, and a lot
> > C> of things are surprising to me. (: I was testing earlier and was having
> > C> problems with the system, and was told that Verisign's test environment
> > C> was down for maintenance, so I would have to wait till after they were
> > C> done to continue (start over?) the testing.
> > C> Just wondering,
> > C> Cindy
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> "My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not
> signed." (Christopher Morley)
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