On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 14:58 +1200, Simon Lyall wrote:
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].
This misconception (which it quite probably was) may have arisen from Xtra's load-balancing of several servers behind each of 202.27.184.3 and .5, the servers often seemed to refresh at different times and would thus end up with different TTLs on records and take a while to come fully "in sync". I don't think I can really speak authoritatively on this subject though 8^) -- -Michael Fincham System Administrator, Unleash www.unleash.co.nz Phone: 0800 750 250 DDI: 03 978 1223 Mobile: 027 666 4482