Faster Updates for DNS Root Servers Arrive

Tee Emm writes "VeriSign's DNS Rapid Update notice period (as announced on NANOG mailing list) expires today. Beginning September 9, 2004 the SOA records of the .com and .net zones will be updated every 5 minutes instead of twice a day. The format of the serial number is also changing from the current YYYYMMDDNN to a new one that depicts the UTC time." We first mentioned this back in July, but it's finally launching now.

Great!

[Anonymous Coward]

The spammers will love it.

Fantastic.

[John_Allen_Mohammed]

This will probably help speed things up on the ogg-streams-over-dns p2p radio stations. Some complain that DNS wasn't designed for these purposes but generally, the same people complaining are the ones raising kids now, using viagra and getting ready to wear diapers again.

Technology adapts to changing circumstances and trends, old folks do not.

In other news

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot has announced they will begin posting stories every twenty seconds, instead of every hour.

Says CowBoy Neil, "Well, we figured at the increased rate, we could dupe stories at twice the usual rate. And also... uh... we could use my name in twice as many polls."

Reached for comment in his mother`s basement, Commander Taco said only, "DNS, smenesh, I think we all want to see GNNA update their trolls!"

Re:International Date Format

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm a geek so I can't get dates, you insensitive clod!

Re:dynamic dns

[JJahn]

Might I recommend using IPCop on an old PC as a firewall/NAT device for your home network? It contains the ability to automatically update your IP address to dyndns and several other dynamic services. Its also a nice firewall product, which is free (as in beer and speech).

Things that are Certain

[Mixel]

Death, Taxes and DNS Propagation Delay.

Re:dynamic dns

[robertjw]

Which is fine if you're a unix-head and know how to work dns

I don't think anyone actually knows how to work dns. It's one of those magic things that you hack for a couple hundred hours and it finally does what you want it to - like qmail.