I think it's like anything, you need to pick who you use, and you need to keep up relationships.
If someone leaves, make sure you know the new people. We've traded DNS with another ISP for most of the past 8 years and they've been great -- never a problem. We traded with a newspaper, and their technical guru went to college and when I asked them to make a change they said "who the hell are you, and who do you think you are asking us to make changes?" -- I almost arranged a demonstration ..... What I did do (this was pre-OpenSRS) was generate a great big stack of templates and E-Mail them to NSI. For the most part, I've been dealing with people who know that they can cause many problems, and that I can cause trouble for them as well. It works out. That said, it is not easy to go through every domain registered on OpenSRS and change nameservers. I'm glad it doesn't happen often. -- Lynn -----Original Message----- From: Robert L Mathews [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 6:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Domain Locking In Bulk At 5/5/02 12:55 PM, Lynn W. Taylor wrote: >That wasn't the problem: they didn't change the name. The IP changed, but >they didn't expect it to change. > >The real problem was, they changed software, and found the learning curve >to be steeper than expected. The server was broken for over a week while >they figured all of that out. > >It would have been better if the server had been "discontinued" but >something was up, the IP in the root was pointing to something, and the >answers that something gave were, ummm, less than optimal. Ah, gotcha. Well, I'll certainly concede that bulk-updates of nameservers are, in fact, a valid solution if you're working with a company that thinks it's acceptable to have a nameserver give bogus responses for your live domains for over a week. Hopefully not a common problem, though. I'm guessing you don't trade DNS with them any more. I often wonder if I should just have some other company handle my secondary DNS instead of maintaining my own boxes in two different locations. You just convinced me it's worth every penny. -- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies "The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was."
