On 6/27/06, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> 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).