Re: [nznog] Telecom Recursive Name Servers

If this issue is seen then please make sure you contact the helpdesk and ask to be put through to CTS. We do monitor this list for such things as well, but of course its not a sure fire approach as we may miss it. However please feel free to post the issue here with the appropriate detail and we will look into it when we see it. Regards Paul Tinson Senior Specialist Level 9, Mayoral Dr Bldg, 31 Airedale Street Auckland www.telecom.co.nz ________________________________ This communication, including any attachments, is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not read it - please contact me immediately, destroy it, and do not copy or use any part of this communication or disclose anything about it. Thank you. Please note that this communication does not designate an information system for the purposes of the Electronic Transactions Act 2002. -----Original Message----- From: nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Richard Hulse Sent: Friday, 20 November 2009 11:01 a.m. To: 'nznog' Subject: Re: [nznog] Telecom Recursive Name Servers We struck a problem with this sort of thing recently - stale records were cached and not updated because recursion was turned off. Some people had not updated to using the new recursive servers. We found out after a DNS change caused bits of our site (served from a static domain) to stop working for the customers of one ISP. 'Twas quickly fixed when discovered, but discovery took a few days ...

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"Paul Tinson" 20/11/2009 10:06 >>> Where possible I would strongly suggest that people no longer use alien or terminator for recursion for the reasons you give and a few others.

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