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Re: DNS Issue with proofpoint.com

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Wed Apr 16 11:42:19 2014

In-Reply-To: <20140416150436.GA19155@vacation.karoshi.com>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 11:41:19 -0400
To: "bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com" <bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:04 AM,  <bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:49:24AM -0400, William Herrin wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:45 AM, TGLASSEY <tglassey@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> > Wouldn't it make sense if we created a specific mail alias for requesting
>> > DNS flushes? This seems to happen statistically often enough it might be a
>> > valuable service to bundle under the NANOG umbrella.
>>
>> What would make sense is some sort of attribute on the DNS record
>> which instructed servers not to cache it for so long that mistakes
>> have a lasting impact.
>
> per RFC 1035:

You're kidding me! You mean they already make that? ;)

-Bill



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