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

["Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 12:34 AM, Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> wrote:
> 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.

I have not measured... I bet yahoo has though :) and/or Akamai.
There's a reason that these folks are doing this. Would be an
interesting presentation though eh?

-Chris