We are still on track to release the SF codebase as an official OpenSRS "product", but there is still some work that needs to be done (primarily documentation, and getting the organization up to speed on the technology for support and sales and dev, etc).
In the interim, the product is still growing and improving, still beta, but working for MANY people. More to come on this point Charles Daminato OpenSRS Product Manager Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Robert L Mathews > Sent: February 19, 2002 12:28 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: bulk domain lookup & registrations (OPENSRS API FEATURE > REQUEST!!!!!!!) > > > At 2/19/02 7:52 AM, Frank Michlick wrote: > > >One possible option would be this: Some sites do actually not use real > >lookups to determine availabilty in the first step, they go by the > >zonefiles instead. I know it's not as precise, but it's certainly an > >option. > > Although see my previous post discussing why this might not help as much > as one would expect if you're going to keep doing availability checks > until you find a certain number of available names: > > http://www.opensrs.org/archives/discuss-list/0201/0331.html > > I was talking about my experience using NS lookups, but you'd have the > same issues with zone files. > > (And no, I haven't switched to the SF version yet, so I haven't tried > parallelizing the lookups. By the way, what's happening with the SF > version? I thought it was supposed to become the default a release or two > ago, but that talk seems to have been de-emphasized.) > > -- > Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies > > "The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody > appreciates how difficult it was." >
