Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones

[Jim Dawson <jdawson () navi net>]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Ian Mason wrote:

> At Wed, 7 Jan 2004 17:46:23 -0500, Matt Larson wrote:
>
> > VeriSign Naming and Directory Services will change the serial number
> > format and "minimum" value in the .com and .net zones' SOA records on
> > or shortly after 9 February 2004.
                      ^^^^^^^^
> [snip]
>
>
> Matt, was it not possible for Verisign to give more than 30 hours notice of 
                                                           ^^^^^^^^^ 
> these changes? This is an Internet-wide change that will very likely break 
> some systems somewhere. Surely more notice would have been reasonable.

I'd say more than 30 days is enough for what amounts to a trivial change
that really only affects their slave name servers. 

Jim
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