Anyone? Please? I /need/ to be able to handle 8 nameservers or else I will be
unable to go ahead with the whole transition I'm hoping to make away from NSI
to OpenSRS.
I see no reason why the 6 nameserver limitation should be anything other
than in the scripts (and I even understand why to put it in the scripts -
the real limitation is arbitrary, annoying and difficult to explain and
keeping the number of nameservers a customer can enter initially on the
low side makes dissatisfaction much less likely) but I really do need
confirmation before I put money in my account to do real registrations.
Thanks,
JB
Quoth JB Segal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I'll just copy my earlier correspondence below, rather than try to summarize it.
> Any comments are welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> JB
>
> Original question:
>
> Greetings...
> All the various vebforms I've found - both on
> http://resellers-test.opensrs.net/
> and
> cgi-bin/register.cgi?action=register_new
> and such, allow only 6 nameservers.
> I know, through great bloody fights with NSI on this topic, that the limitations
> on nameservers in their software is NOT the DNS limitation of one UDP packet,
> but rather a character count by NICName -
> jb@muppet:/u0/jb/perforce/ntp> whois "host
> YD.AKAMAI.COM"@whois.networksolutions.com
> [No name] (YDF-HST)
>
> Hostname: YD.AKAMAI.COM
> Address: 209.189.112.39
>
> such that there can be 8 7 character nameservers.
> (see http://www.apocalypse.org/~jailbait/#nicrant for my not-so-polite take
> on it...)
>
> Here at akamai, we believe in redundancy and I need to be able to register
> all 8 servers for certain domains.
>
> Will it be a problem if I mod the scripts to accept/send 8? If so, why?
>
> Thanks very much,
> JB
>
> Response from 'Frank Lemire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>': (Thanks, Frank!)
>
> JB,
>
> Our scripts are only built to handle 6 nameserver hosts. You may be able to
> take the documention for our API and add into the code the ability to send the
> 7th and 8th nameserver, but to be honest, you're the first person to ask, so I
> really cant say for sure. You may want to check with the dev-list - our
> mailing list for developers, which you can find at :
> http://www.opensrs.org/archives/mailing.index.shtml
> =============
> End forwarded messages.
> (Looking at the reg_system.cgi script, changing 6 to 8 would be easy.
> But what will this break?)
> 356: # encode the nameserver info and pass it to the next form
> 357: if ($custom_nameservers) {
> 358: foreach $num (1..6) {
> 359: $fqdn = $in{"fqdn$num"};
> 360: if ($fqdn) {
> 361: $nameservers .= "$fqdn<br>\n";
> 362: $HTML{NAMESERVER_INFO} .= "<input type=hidden name=\"fqdn$num\"
>value=\"" . encode($fqdn) . "\">\n";
> 363: }
> 364: }
> 365:
> 366: $HTML{NAMESERVERS} = <<EOF;
> 367:<tr><td colspan=2 align=center><b>Nameserver Information</b></td></tr>
> 368:<tr><td colspan=2 align=center>$nameservers</td></tr>
> 369:EOF
> 370: }
>
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