[dns-operations] Enom's name server broken?

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight]

On 15 Jan 2013, at 14:48, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:46:30AM +1100,
> Mark Andrews <marka at isc.org> wrote 
> a message of 126 lines which said:
> 
>> For clean transfers of zones from one provider to the next the
>> losing provide should slave the zones from the new provider.  This
>> ensures that caches only see current content regardless of whether
>> they are talking to the new or old servers.
> 
> Note that it does not scale (think about the ACL to manage and the
> need to have a timer) and, in practice, is never done (despite the
> fact it is a contractual obligation for the .FR registrars and may be
> for the ICANN ones).

It's not a contractual requirement for ICANN accredited registrars

We are contractually obliged to follow the inter-registrar transfer policy (http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registrars/transfers/policy-01jun12.htm ) but that has nothing to do with DNS zone transfers

Most of the ccTLD don't put an obligation on us either

And as Stephane points out, that kind of thing simply does not scale

Regards

Michele



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