[dns-operations] online version checks (was: re: New subscribers)

[Paul Vixie]

> From: Jan-Piet Mens <jpmens+dnsops at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:31:30 +0100
> 
> Which is a shame, seeing it's probably rather trivial to define a
> format (version date, description) for it and to implement the check
> itself. It ought to be a multi-vendor standard.

i'm against this because it counts on all vendors using similar version
numbering schemes.  (i still remember 4.9.3-beta17-patch3 as a production
environment.)

> >> >would one version check per day be too often?
> 
> No, and I'd even make that every 12 (configurable?) hours.

thanks.