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[Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net>]

Serial changes are just a fact of life.  Like I said, it can be 
something as simple as a script screwing up or a mistyped entry -- its 
happened before.  Normally DNS will self-recover within the zone expire 
period, but because of the way we have multiple masters passing the bad 
zones back and forth, that recovery never happens. If we bring it down 
to only two masters for each zone, then at the worst we just have to 
force one master to sync with the other.

If you want to talk about infrastructure disruptions, lets talk about T1 
servers.  The serials were changed almost a month ago, and half of the 
T1s are still carrying the wrong info for one or more zones.  Martin has 
quit because apparently its too much trouble to actually look at his 
server once in awhile.  Texnofobix has been completely MIA for months, 
and hasn't responded to my emails. Julian has tried updating several 
times but is still accepting bad zones from some of the T1s.  And you 
are apparently just ignoring the matter completely and hoping it will go 
away?  Every time I bring it up on chat you just drop out and walk 
away.  Tim's server was completely dead for awhile, and has been back 
online for a few weeks but still isn't resolving any opennic zones. BBS, 
DYN, ING, and MICRO are completely offline.  OSS, Parody, and Pirate are 
all unreliable because of the serial situation.  And the OZ zone is 
currently in limbo.  That's 8 out of 14 TLDs that are not working 
properly, and nobody seems to give a damn.

So what's with the attitudes?  Does everyone expect their server to be a 
black box that they can just walk away from and ignore for a year at a 
time?  God help us if we ever try to add any new TLDs or if the OZ zone 
gets transferred to a new master.  Do we just tell the opennic members 
that's too bad, come back next year and maybe we'll have it updated?  
Yes, this kind of shit pisses me off.  I understand people have things 
to do and lives to live, but its not like we have to make these kind of 
changes very often.  Take 5 minutes and help resolve problems so we can 
keep the project running smoothly.  Please.


On 04/29/2014 10:38 PM, Brian Koontz wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 11:09:12PM -0600, Jeff Taylor wrote:
> > With the recent serial changes for the oss/parody/pirate zones, we
> > are once again facing a problem with T1 operators not being
> > available to ensure that these changes get completed.  There has
> > been some discussion on IRC about policy changes, but I wanted to
> > start a thread here so everyone could lay out their thoughts on the
> > matter...
> How about we not permit "backwards" serial changes?  Really...why is
> it that the entire infrastructure must be disrupted because of serial
> changes?
>
>    --Brian
>
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