> encoded date). It doesn't provide the functionality they are
> striving for.
actually, I think it does.
> However, I don't see any meaningful reason for them not to do this either.
I am a (currently unemployed) mouse. I worry when the cat announces
changes that the cat says are of no interest to mice.
I worry especially when I can not clearly see a benifit to either cat
or mice.
Look again. They may wish to make more than 99 updates
a day to the zone(s) and the yyyymmddxx format is kind of
restrictive in that regard.
--bill
> I am a (currently unemployed) mouse. I worry when the cat announces
> changes that the cat says are of no interest to mice.
>
> I worry especially when I can not clearly see a benifit to either cat
> or mice.
Look again. They may wish to make more than 99 updates
a day to the zone(s) and the yyyymmddxx format is kind of
restrictive in that regard.
Indeed. PIR and UltraDNS update the .org zone (and SOA serials) every
couple of minutes, and propagate changes in an equivalently snappy
fashion. In UltraDNS's case, the format appears to be yyyymmxxxx, or
perhaps yyyyxxxxxx (hard to figure out what the scheme is this early
in the year). I'm sure Verisign has gotten its share of "why the hell
can't you guys do this" email since PIR started offering nice fast
change turnarounds.
I'm just hoping that the choice of a time_t as serial is not a
harbinger of djbdns in the gtld servers...
---Rob
No. All 13 .com/.net name servers now run ATLAS (and have for just
over a year), our own from-scratch DNS server implementation. Nothing
else met our requirements (such as performance, scaling, and price per
query). The size of the .com zone is now well into 64-bit space and
we handle over 10 billion queries across all the servers in a typical
day, so there are some interesting challenges. ATLAS is also tied in
directly to the .com/.net registry database to allow the more frequent
updates alluded to in my original posting. The architecture is pretty
cool, but unfortunately we don't (yet) have any publicly available
white papers on it.
Matt