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

[Mark Andrews]

In message <20130115144843.GA2374 at nic.fr>, Stephane Bortzmeyer writes:
> 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 is not a scaling issue.  You are touching the servers anyway to
configure them to serve the zone.  How much work is it to *automatically*
add the addresses of the losing providers nameservers to the allow
transfer acl for the zone?  A couple of milliseconds.

This is all lack of willingness on behalf of the DNS providers and
nothing else.  They all got in to the business knowing that this
was how it should be done.

Mark
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