Important changes to the .org tld today.

Fri Sep 5 16:49:50 UTC 2003

Rodney,

Thanks for the announcement.  I now have something to forward when 
people wonder why a domain update can take 24hrs.  For those of us 
not on 50 lists a one time post to nanog like this is a big help.

Dave

At 6:03 -0700 9/5/03, Rodney Joffe wrote:
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>During the root zone (.) update later today, specifically with root
>zone serial number 2003090501, the entries for .org will me modified.
>
>The current zone entry contains the following authoritative
>nameservers for the .org tld:
>
>org.                    2D IN NS        A7.NSTLD.COM.
>org.                    2D IN NS        L7.NSTLD.COM.
>org.                    2D IN NS        G7.NSTLD.COM.
>org.                    2D IN NS        F7.NSTLD.COM.
>org.                    2D IN NS        M5.NSTLD.COM.
>org.                    2D IN NS        TLD1.ULTRADNS.NET.
>org.                    2D IN NS        TLD2.ULTRADNS.NET.
>org.                    2D IN NS        J5.NSTLD.COM.
>org.                    2D IN NS        I5.NSTLD.COM.
>org.                    2D IN NS        C5.NSTLD.COM.
>org.                    2D IN NS        E5.NSTLD.COM.
>
>Effective with the 2003090501 load, the entry will reflect the
>removal of the Verisign NSTLD.COM nameservers. The zone entry will
>therefore contain the following only:
>
>org.                    2D IN NS        TLD1.ULTRADNS.NET.
>org.                    2D IN NS        TLD2.ULTRADNS.NET.
>
>If you have the 9 ??.NSTLD.COM nameservers cached or hard coded in
>any way, you may wish to flush your cache or modify your nameservers
>in the near future to avoid any inconsistent or stale data, and you
>may want to make your system administrators, NOCs and customer
>support groups aware of the changes.
>
>The .org zone file will continue to be pushed to the Verisign
>nameservers for a short period of time. However due to the fact that
>the UltraDNS nameservers publish and propagate zone changes globally
>within 5 minutes, rather than the twice daily update schedule of the
>Verisign nameservers, answers from the NSTLD.COM nameservers may be
>out of date and inconsistent with the actual SOA for up to 24 hours
>after a change is accepted by the Public Interest Registry (PIR.org).
>
>Any questions or concerns regarding this change should be directed to
>the PIR (http://www.pir.org).
>
>Sincerely,
>Rodney Joffe
>
>CTO and Chairman
>UltraDNS Corp.
>http://www.ultradns.com
>
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