Until 30 June 2002, com.au, org.au, edu.au, and gov.au domain name
applications all went via the AUNIC system which applied a number of tests
to see if the proposed nameservers were set up correctly for the domain name
in question.

edu.au domain names still use AUNIC, so they still get those tests applied.

I don't know what tests were applied by Connect.com for net.au domain names
or by ConnectWest for asn.au domain names until 30 June 2002.

From 1 July 2002,  asn.au, com.au, id.au, net.au and org.au domain names
moved to the new AusRegistry system, and gov.au names moved there on 1
August 2002 - (I think - perhaps gov.au was a few weeks later).

I'm sure someone from AusRegistry can advise what tests - if any - are
applied to domain names in the asn.au, com.au, gov.au, id.au, net.au and
org.au Registry when someone is registering a new domain name / changing
delegation for an existing domain name.



Regards, Mark

Mark Hughes
Effective Business Applications Pty Ltd
+61 4 1374 3959
www.pplications.com.au
effectivebusiness§pplications.com.au

-----Original Message-----
From: Saints Support [mailto:support§saintspc.com.au]
Sent: Monday, 18 November 2002 12:40 PM
To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
Subject: [DNS] Zone integrity


Hmm I have discovered an intresting challenge just this morning.

I have a cuatomer who is moving some of their domains over from one set
of Nameservers one of my set of nameservers.

The challenge showed it's self when they were able to transfer the
records and get the new nameservers list in .au zone files before the
nameservers were actully configure and correctly running for the domains
that were transferred.

The question I have is what happened to the zone integrity for the .au
domains???

The last time I did a .com.au transfer with MelbIT before the new system
came in would not allow me to complete the transfer without correct and
functioning nameservers.

Now from the looks of what happened with this customer and their domains
it doesn't matter any more, you can just transfer domains were and when
you like without actully making sure they will work when tansfered.

Any one at Ausreg or auda got an answer for this one???

David Uzzell
Technical Sales Consultant
Saints PC Pty Ltd T/as Diversified Data
Ph 1300 36 55 70 or (02) 9533 7388
Fax (02) 9533 7322
www.diversified.com.au

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