----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Friend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Russ Goodwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: Handling bulk NS changes
> Hi Russ,
>
> I have a Perl script I use for doing multi DNS updates like this, and it
runs
> about one update every second or two. The guts of this are the call:
>
> my $xcp_request = {
> action => "modify",
> object => "domain",
> attributes => {
> domain => $domain,
> reg_username => $ref_userinfo->{reg_username},
> reg_password => $ref_userinfo->{reg_password},
> data => "nameserver_list",
> nameserver_list => \@ns_data,
> },
> };
>
> You'll of course require the username & password for the client profile to
run this.
>
> Enjoy :)
>
> Doug.
> Quoting Russ Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Hi-
> >
> > I had a client with 400 domains in one profile call today to have their
> > nameservers changed (they are moving to another ISP). I know about the
> > 2.0.1-multidns version of the client which is supposed to do this, but
> > found it was processing at a rate of about 1-2 domains per minute (400
> > domains @ 1/min = almost 7 hours!). I hacked up a wrapper that POST'ed
to
> > my manage.cgi one domain at a time, and ran it with batches of 10
domains
> > at a time. I was able to get up to 5-8 domains per minute this way, but
> > any gains were lost in the time it took to set up 40 batches.
> >
> > It doesn't seem like there is a good answer to this question in the
> > archives, so I'll ask it: does anyone have a good solution for bulk or
> > mass nameserver changes? (aside from the multidns client code)
> >
> > -Russ
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug.
>
> --
> Doug Friend
> http://register4less.com
>
