Re: DNS Flag Day, Friday, Feb 1st, 2019

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 6:23 PM Mark Andrews <marka () isc org> wrote:

> You do realise that when the day was chosen it was just the date after
> which new versions of name servers by the original group of Open Source DNS

you do realize you are proposing to make a breaking change (breaking change
to a global system) on a friday.
delaying until the following monday would not have mattered to you, I'm
sure it's going to matter to other folks though.

thanks,
-chris


> developers would not have the work arounds incorporated?
>
> For ISC that will be BIND 9.14.0 and no that will not be available Feb 1
> but you can use the development version 9.13 which has had the code for a
> while now.
>
> Individual operators of resolvers will make their own decisions about when
> to deploy.
> --
> Mark Andrews
>
> On 31 Jan 2019, at 12:55, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 5:41 PM Jim Popovitch via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2019-01-30 at 17:22 -0800, Matthew Petach wrote:
> > > Any chance this could wait until say the Tuesday
> > > *after* the Superbowl, when we aren't cutting an
> > > entire religion's worth of potential workers out of
> > > the workforce available to fix issues in case it
> > > turns out to be a bigger problem than is expected,
> > > and when we have less chance of annoying the
> > > vast army of football-loving fans of every sort?
> >
> > IIRC, DNS Flag Day was announce way before last years Super Bowl...
> > what did the people who aren't ready for DNS Flag Day do in the past
> > 364 days that they need a few more days to get ready for?
> Oh, so they had 365 days to plan the time of the event and still picked a
> friday for that event?
>
>
> https://www.opsview.com/resources/system-administrator/blog/three-reasons-why-not-make-major-it-changes-fridays
>
> I see.