[178589] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Sat Feb 28 20:33:24 2015
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Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 19:33:00 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@paradoxnetworks.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 2/28/2015 7:24 PM, Stephen Satchell wrote:
> How did I know about the DNS server manipulation? I worked for a Web
> hosting company with about 3,000 domains being served. Whenever the
> company renumbered (until it finally got its own IP allocation in order
> to multi-home) we would have to service the old addresses and new
> addresses for a week. When the cable DNS servers finally aged out the
> old addresses, we could shut down the old ones. Royal admin pain in the
> neck.
Actually, until Windows 98 finally died (perhaps ME?), I always did at
least a week as windows 98 did not expire its local cache. Things were
usually good after a week because windows 98 boxes tended to crash by
then. I still allow several days for moves between servers, though.
Never know what people are doing that they shouldn't.:)
Jack
