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Re: primary for aol.com?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Fri Oct 16 15:31:45 1998

Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:37:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: list@inet-access.net
cc: nanog@merit.edu, ken hays <hays@scri.fsu.edu>,
        joe pasko <pasko@scri.fsu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199810161847.OAA19994@supernet.net>

On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, bryan s. blank wrote:

> 	went ahead and went authorative for aol for the time being, this
> 	might not be what aol wants everyone to do, and it might hit
> 	some MX'es harder than others, but since i can't get anything
> 
> @                       SOA     mars.discovernet.net.  bryanb.discovernet.net. (
>                         1998081601
>                         21600   ; refresh
>                         3600    ; retry
>                         604800  ; expire
>                         86400 ) ; minimum
> 
> aol.com. 15797  NS  DNS-02.NS.aol.com.
> aol.com. 15797  NS  DNS-01.NS.aol.com.

Ugly!

Add this to root.cache instead:

aol.com.                3600000         NS      dns-02.aol.com.
dns-02.aol.com.         3600000         A       152.163.199.56

You might go through your named cache dump and use a different AOL DNS
server so we're not all pounding the same one.

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