[NANOG] RE: [NANOG] Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded
Roeland Meyer
rmeyer at mhsc.com
Fri Feb 2 19:48:45 UTC 2001
> From: Pim van Riezen [mailto:pi at vuurwerk.nl]
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 3:59 AM
>
> On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:
>
> > > Pete Elke's point about preproduction testing could perhaps be
> > > turned from a combative tone to the constructive without loss of
> > > information.
> >
> > Isn't that why NSI is running a stealth master root server
> ... so they _are
> > able_ to do pre-production testing of zone files? In the
> past few years,
> > there were a lot of root server outages that would have
> been prevented by
> > that practice.
>
> To be honest, yes it wuold've saved me some extra frustration if I had
> known there would be such issues. Yes, a test situation is
> ideal to get
> these changes figured out. I just counted on it to be a
> trivial upgrade
> and it wasn't.
Repeat after me; There is no such thing as a trivial upgrade.
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