For Sale Verisign Speeds Up DNS Updates

[Domainut]

Verisign Speeds Up DNS Updates

Verisign will be switching from performing 2 updates per day of the .com and .net zones to performing updates every few seconds. After the rapid DNS update is implemented, the elapsed time from registrars' add or change operations to the visibility of those adds or changes is expected to average less than five minutes.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/11/1741225


:approve:

This should be great for DNS and helpfull for us to know who caught what

 

[Luc]

Verisign Speeds Up DNS Updates

Verisign will be switching from performing 2 updates per day of the .com and .net zones to performing updates every few seconds. After the rapid DNS update is implemented, the elapsed time from registrars' add or change operations to the visibility of those adds or changes is expected to average less than five minutes.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/11/1741225


:approve:

This should be great for DNS and helpfull for us to know who caught what

sweet! thanks for the update.

it also means that we'll eat up more bandwidth downloading those zone
files.

 

[Deleted member 4749]

Yeeha!

 

[Luc]

Yeeha!

after reading the faq it seems like the zone file lists will still be updated only
twice per day. maybe i'm wrong, but that's what it seems like.

also, this is not going into effect until Sept 8, 2004.

so, the only advantage that i can see is that we won't have to wait hours-days
for our names to propagate.

luc l.

 

[Steen]

still good!

 

[cyphix]

About damm time!

 

[clemzonguy]

About damm time!

Amen to that!

 

[BLazeD]

Does this mean anything for website DNS propogation?

 

[strongvis]

all these years and these guys finally figured out how to pull their heads out of the sand and do something that will help everyone . .. .finally earning their keep. . . Of course they said that about sitefinder too lol

 

[Dale Hubbard]

I read somwehere that the update was to be every 5 minutes. You'll need a very fast connection and script to keep up with the drops to make that any advantage. They should implement a 'diff' system so that THEY store the DIFFERENCES (both drops and additions) in the zone files each day for download and replace those files every 24 hours. This would save us and them considerable b/w...

 

[Domainut]

This will assist with whois checks and DNS propogation probably, but IMO won't effect us accessing the zone files much, since we, according to their rules, are only supposed to access them twice a day. And making a list of onhold, redemption, pending delete would make since in a way, but it might increase bandwidth usage, because then everybody would then apply for access, because the files are already compiled. (without stats of course).

 

[Dale Hubbard]

I agree, but there are many probably who won't keep to the 'twice daily' rule...

 

[Domainut]

And they will be banned, and have to refax them etc.. and maybe be approved or not.

 

[netznutz]

Given the fixed RGB of 30 days (where the domains that just went out of the zone are guaranteed NOT to drop), why should one do a zone file process more often than - say - every 2 weeks? OK, I see one single use: to catch the SnapNames slot for the domain. Did I miss something?

 

[Luc]

uhh, not sure what you guys are talking about, but as far as I know the
zone files available for download will still be updated only TWICE per day.

the only thing that will speed up is the propagation and whois resolve.

luc l.

"VNDS will continue to publish .com/.net zone files twice per day as
part of the TLD Zone File Access Program. [2] These zone files will
continue to reflect the state of the .com/.net registry database at
the moment zone generation begins."