[91047] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP failover/migration question.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Tue Jun 27 11:30:49 2006
In-Reply-To: <200606271520.k5RFKcoY011268@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:29:56 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jun 27, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:51:30 BST, Andy Davidson said:
>> Popular web browsers running on popular desktop operating systems
>> also display extra-long dns cache time 'bugs'.
>
> A well known fact, which leads right into your next comment...
>
>> 24 hours + outage whilst stale dns disappears will never do in
>> internet retail.
>
> And yet, with 90% of the net implementing the "will never do"
> scenario,
> we manage to get a lot of internet retail done anyhow. I'm
> obviously going
> to need a *lot* more caffeine to sort through that conundrum....
We do because we don't wait for DNS to time out in broken browsers,
we have actual multi-homing with real networks.
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TTFN,
patrick
