[mythtv-users] Schedules Direct - Cliff's Notes?

Rick rick at laity.ca
Tue Oct 7 17:07:33 UTC 2014


On 10/7/2014 12:51 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
> ....
>> 3. There was discussion about a DNS change, such that users wouldn't have
>>     to do anything. Last word on that was that it *wouldn't* happen due to
>>     some political reasons (far beyond my pay grade.)
>
> Any political reasons would almost certainly be at the
> Tribune level in terms of their corporate split.  Who
> got the dns delegation for tmsdatadirect.com matters
> as to whom has to make the change (and whose
> staff has to invest the efforts).  Currently tmsdatadirect.com
> is provided by the dns<n>tribune.com name servers (and
> tribune.com is the old media company I believe).
> That delegation could change to gracenote name
> servers, but would require agreement to do so.
>
> Technical reasons, on the other hand, would have
> to do with investment by the people doing the
> dns support.  It is possible that there is no time
> to complete the work before Nov 1 (although since
> this has been in the works for quite some time, I
> would have thought that it could have been planned
> for).
>
> I could certainly understand if the old media company
> would not want to make a change for the new media
> company without being paid to do so.
>
> But I do agree that I have seen a comment that the
> DNS change seemed unlikely.  Which means
> gracenote is doing a disservice to their existing
> customer base during this transition.  But such
> is life.
>

Well we buy the service from someone.  Are you saying they won't honour 
that contract.  Seems strange.



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