[72700] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Fri Jul 23 05:42:10 2004
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:41:33 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <g3llhbmbxn.fsf@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Paul Vixie wrote:
> so do i. but more importantly, i agree with daniel that the next thing
>
>that's going to happen as a result is that there will be pressure toward
>lower ttl's. and i further agree with daniel that lower ttl's would be
>bad. so, let's increase dynamicism of domain addition, but let's please
>not also increase dynamicism of delegation change and domain deletion.
>
>
What would be your suggestion to achieve the desired effect that many
seek by lower TTL's, which is changing A records to point to available,
lower load servers at different times? I did read the point that lower
TTL's should only be used when appropriate but if most high-traffic
sites use low TTL's, the point about the rest is moot. (with the
exception of the root-servers) The load will be seen on ISP resolvers,
specially on consumer networks.
Pete
