Verisign Speeds Up DNS Updates 131
Changeling writes "According to Matt Larson, a representative of VeriSign Naming and Directory Services, on September 8, 2004 Verisign will be switching from performing 2 updates per day of the .com and .net zones to performing updates every few seconds. According to Matt, 'After the rapid DNS update is implemented, the elapsed time from registrars' add or change operations to the visibility of those adds or changes in all 13 .com/.net authoritative name servers is expected to average less than five minutes." Full story can be found here."
Thanks, Verisign... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Thanks, Verisign... (Score:2, Funny)
I second that.
Yet another Y2038 problem (Score:1, Funny)
They should have made it what I made it when I had to program an automatically generated serial number: (Unix timestamp - some other number (414500033 to be exact)) / 60
This timestamp won't expire...for a while.
Re:Die script kiddie (Score:5, Funny)
We're under attack! Rotate DNS frequencies!
Re:Yep, your org took less than 5 mins (Score:4, Funny)
Re:"A little-known DNS behavior called credibility (Score:5, Funny)
Which became even less well-known after Verisign hijacked DNS with SiteFinder
</sarcasm>
- Neil Wehneman
Re:Die script kiddie (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Domain Name Portablity... (Score:5, Funny)