[98512] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Content Delivery Networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Fri Aug 10 12:51:33 2007
Date: 10 Aug 2007 16:46:29 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <002101c7db61$2ca6ad60$2e00a8c0@andrew2>
Cc: andrew@profitability.net
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>Very interesting. We've all heard and probably all passed along that little
>bromide at one time or another. Is it possible that at one time it was true
>(even possibly for AOL) but with the rise of CDNs, policies of not honoring
>TTL's have fallen by the wayside?
I think you'll still see it in spam zombies, some of which have the DNS info
pre-loaded into them in order to avoid split-horizon anti-spam techniques.
Not much we can do about that until we get sufficient backbone to deal
with the zombie problem and its software enablers.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor
"More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
