On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Michael Fincham wrote:
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 13:23 +1200, Dave Mill wrote:
To counteract this, I tend to find things rather good. Most ISP's tend to honour TTLs.
Xtra's alien / terminator were the only real exceptions to this I can recall in recent history. I have no idea if they're still being occasionally weird about caching incorrect records.
I don't think I've (noticed) having a problem with them in a few years.
I really think this is an urban legend. AFAIK the boxes were running bind for a long time and there isn't even an option to make it ignore TTLs [1]. The non-splitting of Auth/Recursive DNS was a problem with them though, especially since such a large percentage of the NZ internet used them that people noticed really quickly when "people still go to our old website". Xtra's been handing out different recursive servers (to people who leave their DNS settings on automatic) for years so anybody who is using them for recursion has hardcoded them. [1] - If there was then ANZ would be first to be "fixed" -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.