Re: Bind 9 AXFR Modification vs AXFR Clarification

2003-02-21 Thread Mark . Andrews
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Whenever you have a parent and child zones under different administrative controls it is impossible to change both zones simultaniously. False. Set the clocks correctly, and schedule the change on all the servers for a particular time, using (for example) the

Re: Bind 9 AXFR Modification vs AXFR Clarification

2003-02-21 Thread Erik Nordmark
Apparently, you aren't even aware that your changes will make all non-bind 9 servers non-compliant. Had you been aware of that, it seems you would have brought this proposal forward something like 3 years ago, before releasing Bind 9, and before publishing a book on the subject. A data

Re: axfr-clarify's fraudulent claims of consensus

2003-02-21 Thread Mark . Andrews
Eliot Lear writes: your implementation And others, notably BIND 8. We're talking about MOST of the Internet's DNS servers here. (See http://cr.yp.to/surveys/dns1.html; I'm assuming that *.com is representative.) This is not a small issue. could cause interoperability problems by

Re: Bind 9 AXFR Modification vs AXFR Clarification

2003-02-21 Thread David Conrad
I remember when people thought OSI protocols took too long to standardize... :-) Rgds, -drc On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 12:25 AM, Erik Nordmark wrote: Apparently, you aren't even aware that your changes will make all non-bind 9 servers non-compliant. Had you been aware of that, it

Re: Bind 9 AXFR Modification vs AXFR Clarification

2003-02-21 Thread Matt Crawford
Set the clocks correctly, and schedule the change on all the servers for a particular time, using (for example) the tinydns timestamp feature described in http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/tinydns-data.html. When that time rolls around, all the servers will change their data simultaneously, My friend

Re: Bind 9 AXFR Modification vs AXFR Clarification

2003-02-21 Thread Matt Crawford
draft-ietf-dnsext-axfr-clarify-00.txt Nominum Inc. March 2000 Seems to be 3 years ago. I remember when people thought OSI protocols took too long to standardize... :-) $X is a slow-moving parody of itself. -- Peter

Re: Warning about the use of abusive language

2003-02-21 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
Be liberal in what you accept seems a good philosophy for reading this list... As a very intelligent man told me once - The good thing about 'Subject' is that you know what you can delete without reading it. - kurtis -