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Re: IP failover/migration question.

  • From: infowolfe
  • Date: Tue Jun 27 12:17:28 2006
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On 6/27/06, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:51:30 BST, Andy Davidson said:
> Popular web browsers running on popular desktop operating systems
> also display extra-long dns cache time 'bugs'.

A well known fact, which leads right into your next comment...

> 24 hours + outage whilst stale dns disappears will never do in
> internet retail.

And yet, with 90% of the net implementing the "will never do" scenario,
we manage to get a lot of internet retail done anyhow.  I'm obviously going
to need a *lot* more caffeine to sort through that conundrum....


Could you imagine slashdot, amazon or google going down for 24 hours?
I think there would be panic in the streets.

Uptime might not matter for small hosts that do mom and pop websites
or so-called "beta" blog-toys, but every time Level3 takes a dump,
it's my wallet that feels the pain. It's actually a rather frustrating
situation for people who aren't big enough to justify a /19 and an
AS#, but require geographically dispersed locations answering on the
same IP(s).