Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Roger Marquis <marquis () roble com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> > > I'd point out that FastFlux is actually sort of how Akamai does
> > > it's job (inconsistent dns responses)
> >
> > That's not really fast flux.  FF uses TTLs of just a few seconds with
> > dozens of NS.  Also, in practice, most FF NS are invalid.  Not that FF has
> > a fixed definition...
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> www.yahoo.com.          24      IN      CNAME   www.yahoo-ht3.akadns.net.
> www.yahoo-ht3.akadns.net. 57    IN      A       69.147.76.15
>
> akamai, 60 second TTL's... most of the FF things I've seen sit around
> 300seconds for NS and for A records. either way, this is 60 seconds
> which is fast enough.

Interesting, I was under the impression anything less than 120 is 
effectively as good as 120.

        Gadi.