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Re: BGP announcements and small providers
From: "Alex.Bligh" <amb () xara net>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 12:08:41 +0000
Justin,
You're making lots of assumptions. 1) That client DNS systems will actually honor such a TTL. Many don't (claim they're broken all you want, but these are the facts). 2) That client SOFTWARE will actually go back and ask again for the IP number. Several won't (Netscrape being rumored to be one of them). TTLs are irrelavent in that case. Go ahead and try to tell your customer, who purchased web service from you, that you have the right to disrupt their operations at any time and under any pretense and see how many of them you have left.
Leave the site running on both IPs for (say) 4 weeks. Even broken DNS doesn't last this long. And yes, anyone who doesn't quit their web browser for four weeks will suffer, but these are mostly UNIX guys anyway who will know why it's broken :-) Alex Bligh Xara Networks - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Current thread:
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers, (continued)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Bradley Dunn (Feb 26)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Douglas Warren (Feb 26)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Adrian Bool (Feb 28)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Karl Denninger (Feb 26)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Philip J. Nesser II (Feb 26)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Karl Denninger (Feb 26)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Alex.Bligh (Feb 28)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Matt Ranney (Feb 26)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Perry E. Metzger (Feb 26)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Bradley Dunn (Feb 26)
- Re: BGP announcements and small providers Neil J. McRae (Feb 28)