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Faster Updates for DNS Root Servers Arrive

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the quicker-name-picker-upper dept.

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.

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  1. dynamic dns by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So when will they be added support for dynamic IP addresses a la dyndns etc. That would be great.

  2. Root Servers... by jmcmunn · · Score: 5, Interesting


    So I don't exactly get it, but is this just the root servers that are going to be updating every five minutes? I read the links, but it still doesn't seem clear to me. I mean, if my registrar (or dns service or whatever) still only send in their updates once every day, this won't really help me as much right?

    Of course, once they do send it in I will still get it updated an average of 6 hours faster I guess. Just curious, since the details were a little vague to us non-dns folks.

  3. International Date Format by Compact+Dick · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's about time the switch was made -- here's why ISO 6601 is the way to go.

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    Use ISO 8601 dates [YYYY-MM-DD]