[db-wg] New delegation checking software

[Apologies for duplicates]

Dear colleagues,

Tomorrow, 8 August 2012, the RIPE NCC will deploy a change to the RIPE
Database update software. As part of this deployment, we will switch to
a new DNS delegation checker, developed by .SE, the Swedish domain name
registry.

This change should not have any impact on the process of registering a
reverse DNS delegation in the RIPE Database. However, the informational
and diagnostic messages this software returns will look different from
the ones you have been seeing so far. There should be no noticeable
outage in any of the services during this deployment.

There will be no change to any other parts of the RIPE Database update
or query software with this deployment.

Along with these changes to the back-end software, the RIPE NCC will
also update the web-based delegation checker at:
http://www.ripe.net/data-tools/dns

This new web-based delegation checker will use the same software as the
back-end.

We will send another announcement after we have deployed this new software.

If you have any questions or comments, please send an email to
<dns at ripe.net>.

Regards,

Anand Buddhdev
RIPE NCC