[89429] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS TTL adherence
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Wed Mar 15 10:42:08 2006
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:41:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Simon Waters <simonw@zynet.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200603151525.38837.simonw@zynet.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Simon Waters wrote:
>> This behavior is unfortunately not unique.
>
> Alas what others peoples servers do, shouldn't be an issue for you. Your
> problem is they can be coerced into a DoS attack, not that the data is stale.
Tell that to a customer when you've moved some resource of theirs to a
different IP...having been careful to decrease the TTL well in advance.
Some parts of the internet are simply broken and beyond your control.
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