[71522] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Travelling the backway to Google
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Wed Jun 16 19:49:46 2004
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:48:39 -0500
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040616233550.GB87347@puck.nether.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Jared Mauch wrote:
> I think the question is truly this:
>
> some of the dns responses that i saw had low ttls, should
> they use a longer ttl?
>
> the problems i saw were related to the data expiring from the cache,
> some of this is to workaround broken clients/resolvers that will "latch"
> on to one IP (as part of a load balancing solution), but IMHO
> those people don't deserve internet service until their systems properly
> do RR...
One of us thinks the shor TTL is at the heart of the Akamai "system".
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