Pushing GTLD zones [WAS: Akamai DNS Issue?]

Thu Jun 17 15:49:20 UTC 2004

On Jun 17, 2004, at 11:37 AM, Matt Levine wrote:

> Ya...didn't look at the setup before I posted, oh well..
>
> I'll still pose the question as a theoretical one... say it was 
> ultradns rather than akadns (..or any substantially large website in 
> traffic having an authoritive DNS attack), would verisign be willing 
> to push changes for somebody 'big' ? should they?

The only time I remember that the .com zone was pushed out of window 
for a customer was one time AOL had a problem with AOL.com.  I think 
they let it expire by accident, not certain.  Check the NANOG archives.

Interesting that AOL can force a push but "ianai.net" cannot.  Is it 
because they have more users?  Would citibank.com be able to do the 
same thing?  How about xxxPR0Nxxx.com?  I bet some of them have lots 
and lots of users too.... :)

Other than that, I remember the .com zone being pushed mid-day when 
there was an error during the over-night push.

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TTFN,
patrick