On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 05:59:45PM +1300, Andrew McGhie wrote:

Please note that ns1.waikato.ac.nz will be decommissioned as the public secondary at the end of this month.

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Before the weekend I will be mailing the name holders and technical contacts about the changes, so please bear in mind there will probably be an increase in help desk calls.

There are 2963 zones using ns1.waikato.ac.nz as an authoritative nameserver right now. Assuming, with wild optimism, that: + the name holder and technical contact address you have are all valid; + everybody who receives notification waits only a week to do something about it you're going to have an average of 296 change requests per day to manage. That's one helpdesk call every 1.6 minutes, on average, through the working day, assuming they all call. And remember that most/all of these are pre-DRS, and confusion is to be expected. More likely, 80% of these zones will not be changed before the end of the month, and the nz root servers will just acquire an additional couple of thousand lame delegations. Would it not be prudent to allow a little more time for people to manage their changes than three weeks? Perhaps ns1 could be left running for longer, and the actual decommissioning time determined once you see how fast delegations are being changed to pubsec? Joe jabley(a)maggie[161]$ ( for n in ac co cri gen govt iwi net org school; do \

dig axfr ${n}.nz @ns99.waikato.ac.nz; done ) | \ egrep -i 'NS.*ns1.waikato.ac.nz' | cut -f1 | sort | uniq | wc -l 2963 jabley(a)maggie[162]$

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