[91054] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP failover/migration question.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gregory Hicks)
Tue Jun 27 13:33:01 2006
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:32:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gregory Hicks <ghicks@cadence.com>
Reply-To: Gregory Hicks <ghicks@cadence.com>
To: andy@nosignal.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: randy@psg.com, andrew.warfield@cl.cam.ac.uk, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:20:38 -0400
>
> 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....
OR, it *could* be that the retailers know about the way 'things'
operate and don't make many changes once they get their site up...
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