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Verisign Speeds Up DNS Updates

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the creating-throwaway-domains-now-much-faster dept.

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."

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  1. Thanks, Verisign... by SamMichaels · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...but kissing our asses won't make up for the fact you still want to deprecate NXDOMAIN for SiteFinder.

  2. Re:Die script kiddie by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Will this put an end of DDOS attacks?"

    We're under attack! Rotate DNS frequencies!

  3. Re:Yep, your org took less than 5 mins by The+Lord+of+Chaos · · Score: 4, Funny

    Gee, I wish my wife's orgs would take less than 5 minutes.

  4. Re:"A little-known DNS behavior called credibility by Landaras · · Score: 4, Funny

    the reason has a lot to do with a little-known DNS behavior called credibility

    Which became even less well-known after Verisign hijacked DNS with SiteFinder

    </sarcasm>

    - Neil Wehneman

    --
    My legal education, in nifty podcast format
  5. Re:Domain Name Portablity... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    I browse at +1. ACs need not reply.
    Guess you won't read this, fuck face.