[105635] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Sat Jun 28 00:34:49 2008
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:34:34 -0500 (CDT)
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <75cb24520806272131n67897038n5706ba0289004235@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sat, 28 Jun 2008, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Christopher Morrow wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd point out that FastFlux is actually sort of how Akamai does
>>> it's job (inconsistent dns responses)
>>
>> That's not really fast flux. FF uses TTLs of just a few seconds with
>> dozens of NS. Also, in practice, most FF NS are invalid. Not that FF has
>> a fixed definition...
>>
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> www.yahoo.com. 24 IN CNAME www.yahoo-ht3.akadns.net.
> www.yahoo-ht3.akadns.net. 57 IN A 69.147.76.15
>
> akamai, 60 second TTL's... most of the FF things I've seen sit around
> 300seconds for NS and for A records. either way, this is 60 seconds
> which is fast enough.
Interesting, I was under the impression anything less than 120 is
effectively as good as 120.
Gadi.
