[159732] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Intermittent incorrect DNS resolution?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrei Ivanov)
Fri Jan 18 18:15:26 2013
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:13:06 -0800 (PST)
From: Andrei Ivanov <ivanov_andrei@yahoo.com>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <17466059.3214.1358549169663.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Reply-To: Andrei Ivanov <ivanov_andrei@yahoo.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Jay Ashworth wrote:
>
>Microsoft broke the Internet just to make their internal networking
>work properly?
>
>I'm shocked; *shocked* I tell... yes, just put the money right over there;
>*shocked* I say.
>
>You can't imagine how much time that lost me in diagnoses when it first
>came out, until we finally located it somewhere on the Internet.
Yeah, SUNW did it even before MSFT. Ever heard about 'nscd'?!
It gets installed [but disabled by default] in any Linux distro derived
from Red Hat Linux as well. If activated, will keep resolved records
in an in-memory cache for an hour with all default settings.
--
andrei
