May 6, 2008 at 2:50PM EPP domain nameserver update suckage
One of the things I really dislike about EPP is the demented method its domain mapping uses for updating the nameservers associated with a domain.
Rather than just specifying the nameservers directly, it requires you to specify the ones you want to remove from the current list of nameservers associated, and the ones to add. I imagine that when this ‘feature’ was added, the excuse used was update efficiency, but considering that it requires the caller to have a pretty freshly minted list of the domain’s nameservers, which requires a fairly recent <domain:info/> call to avoid a malformed update, I really can’t see what possessed them to do things this way. That’s an extra call from a registrar’s EPP backend to the registry’s EPP server, which might fail, or might be slow, and may introduce a race condition where the fetch and update both need to be retried because somebody’s updated the nameservers in the mean time.
You have to wonder, really.
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