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Re: ISP inbound failover without BGP


From: Sebastian Spies <s+Mailinglisten.nanog () sloc de>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 15:16:19 +0100

Am 04.03.2014 05:19, schrieb William Herrin:

Reasons why dynamic DNS fails to perform as expected include:

* Web browser DNS pinning can result in a customer's web browser
holding the old IP address indefinitely.

* Host-level caching of looked up names which discards the TTL.
Remember: your desktop or laptop performs lookups against multiple
name services, e.g. DNS, /etc/hosts, lmhosts, NIS+. DNS TTL is no
longer in scope once the name to address map enters the generic host
lookup mechanism. Most OSes have a fixed timeout of one sort or
another, some old ones as long as 24 hours.

* Eyeball ISPs' DNS resolvers might tamper with TTL values.


-- SEBASTIAN SPIES lnked.in/sspies vastly.de


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