Re: Travelling the backway to Google

["Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon () cox net>]

Jared Mauch wrote:


>         I think the question is truly this:
>
>         some of the dns responses that i saw had low ttls, should
> they use a longer ttl?
>
>         the problems i saw were related to the data expiring from the cache,
> some of this is to workaround broken clients/resolvers that will "latch"
> on to one IP (as part of a load balancing solution), but IMHO
> those people don't deserve internet service until their systems properly
> do RR...

One of us thinks the shor TTL is at the heart of the Akamai "system".

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