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On 17 Mar 19  06:02:19, August Abolins said the following to Nick Andre:

> In any domain-transfer, Name server or DNS situation, I would rather
> suggest
> playing safe than merely switching name servers.
AA> 
AA> But it is safe.  It is easy to put in another DNS at any time, or clear tho
AA> fields.  Updating  those DNS fields is not a "transfer" (which would requir

I'm sorry to completely disagree with you here, but I suggest going back and 
reading my message carefully before assuming that I do not understand how DNS 
or name servers or host transfers work. The correct assumption is that if the 
DNS at fidonet.org were easy, someone would of fixed this a long time ago.

I also suggest looking at a recent nodelist, scroll down to Region 50.

There is more to the fidonet.org domain than just the crude outdated website 
you see in your browser. If thats all what the domain is, my 12 year old 
daughter could muscle control and configure DNS and a Wordpress site in 
probably an hour. Ward's granddaughter, probably in less time.

Again - The name server system that runs fidonet.org is a BSD deployment with
BIND and Perl generating the DNS records from entries in the Nodelist. This
is done to satisfy a segment of Fidonet that is often ignored in most
discussions... Russia.

About a year or so ago, I was given a mostly-complete copy of the DNS records
for fidonet.org as well as the Perl script. The last time I checked, I saw
at least a hundred or so A, CNAME and MX entries just for Region 50. There
are subdomain entries for Region 50 to essentially clone the operation of the
IEEE gateway from the 90's.

Since nobody has yet established a concise dialog with the Russians about 
their use of the DNS system in this way, I would not suggest breaking things
for them... they take Fidonet a bit more seriously. 

This likely also explains why the website at fidonet.org was not updated for 
quite some time either. The fidonet.org system just became overtly complex.

Nick

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