On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 6:23 PM Mark Andrews <ma...@isc.org> wrote: > You do realise that when the day was chosen it was just the date after > which new versions of name servers by the original group of Open Source DNS >
you do realize you are proposing to make a breaking change (breaking change to a global system) on a friday. delaying until the following monday would not have mattered to you, I'm sure it's going to matter to other folks though. thanks, -chris > developers would not have the work arounds incorporated? > > For ISC that will be BIND 9.14.0 and no that will not be available Feb 1 > but you can use the development version 9.13 which has had the code for a > while now. > > Individual operators of resolvers will make their own decisions about when > to deploy. > -- > Mark Andrews > > On 31 Jan 2019, at 12:55, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 5:41 PM Jim Popovitch via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> > wrote: > >> On Wed, 2019-01-30 at 17:22 -0800, Matthew Petach wrote: >> > Any chance this could wait until say the Tuesday >> > *after* the Superbowl, when we aren't cutting an >> > entire religion's worth of potential workers out of >> > the workforce available to fix issues in case it >> > turns out to be a bigger problem than is expected, >> > and when we have less chance of annoying the >> > vast army of football-loving fans of every sort? >> >> IIRC, DNS Flag Day was announce way before last years Super Bowl... >> what did the people who aren't ready for DNS Flag Day do in the past >> 364 days that they need a few more days to get ready for? >> >> > Oh, so they had 365 days to plan the time of the event and still picked a > friday for that event? > > > https://www.opsview.com/resources/system-administrator/blog/three-reasons-why-not-make-major-it-changes-fridays > > I see. > >
