[dns-operations] UPDATED ROOT ZONE FILE: 2008-05-26-01

[McTim]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:29 AM, Ask Bjørn Hansen <ask at develooper.com> wrote:
>
> On May 26, 2008, at 6:16 PM, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) wrote:
>
> [ I can't believe I'm falling into this trap! ]
>
>> Oh, I find it amusing that you call 4 people "a significant number
>> of users".
>
>
> I'm guessing the rest, like me until now, were hoping your noise would
> go away without everyone having to create _even more noise_ about it.
>
>  From your other mail:
>
>> These updates are notices of changes to remove/adjust the dead/
>> misconfigured
>> TLDs from the zone. It is VERY important that these notices get
>> widespread
>> visibility since TLD holders need to be informed of updates/changes
>> that
>> affect their customers.
>
>
> Since it's so very important then no doubt those TLD holders will be
> subscribing to your list to get this very important information.
>
>> This data is not in the DNS except in TXT records [....]
>
>
> Quite some record keeping there!
>
> Why does the poor management of your private root zone force the rest
> of us to waste time with your mails about it?
>
>> So, what is the consensus: A short notice each month with a link to
>> the
>> change log?  I get the impression that folks don't like the long
>> version.
>
>
> The consensus seemed to be pretty clear that everyone (but you) would
> be just fine with you not ever posting to this list again about your
> root zone.

Agreed, I don't use the "worldroot", nor do i need/want to know about
it's monthly zone changes.

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
$ whois -h whois.afrinic.net mctim