North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net
> But the new policy does allow normal people to do something they couldn't > otherwise do: have a working .com/.net Web site and e-mail in a few > minutes. That's good for legitimate domain owner happiness. > > By far the number one question customers ask my (hosting) company when > they sign up is "When will it start working?". It's almost embarrassing > to tell these poor people "ahem... it probably won't work for a day or > so, and it's a bit random -- your friends might find it works before you > do, so please don't complain if that happens", etc. > > It's certainly true that a day's wait isn't the end of the world, but > these people are anxious, and it is a source of confusion, bother and > worry for them. bingo! and the TTL issue is almost entirely NS RRs, as Sam Stickland <[email protected]> pointed out in the article from the usual suspects at mit/lcs, <http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/papers/dns-imw2001.html>. of course, almost all date in the gtlds are NS RRs, so the worry about TTL crank-down holds, though just for silly gtld servers. then again, they're paid to serve. randy
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