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Re: DNS TTL adherence

  • From: Jon Lewis
  • Date: Wed Mar 15 10:42:44 2006 
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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