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Re: Changing ISP, updating DNS

From: Men & Mice Support
Date: Saturday, January 15, 2000
Time: 2:05:00 am

At 5:24 PM -0800 1/14/2000, Global Homes Webmaster wrote:
>On 01/14/00 at 16:53, Men & Mice Support wrote:
>
>> The root servers are updated once every 48 hours. I don't recall
>> when, exactly, though.
>
>For domain name registrations and modifications, the completion notice from
>NetSol these days says:
>
> The zone files, which make the Internet work, are updated twice daily, 7
> days a week, beginning at 5:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
> Requests received and completed by these times will be included in the
> next zone file update. However, your modified record may not be visible
> in Network Solutions' WHOIS database for 24-48 hours from the time of
> the zone file update.
>
>Does this not refer to the zone files on the root servers? Back when InterNIC
>and NetSol where the same, the message specifically referred to the root
>servers and it was once a day. I've (almost) always been able to see changes
>to my domains in the root servers the day after NetSol/InterNIC says changes
>have been completed. Still and all, even though the message says '5:00 a.m.
>and 5:00 p.m.' it _is_ Network Dilutions, and we all know how much trust to
>place in anything they say...

Interesting. I remember it being once every 48 hours.

Well, just goes to show, even I can be wrong. :\
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Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com
Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com
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