Re: dns and software, was Re: Reliable Cloud host ?

On 02/29/12 10:01, Owen DeLong wrote:

Further, DNS performance issues in the past have led developers of such applications to "take matters into their own hands" to try and improve the performance/behavior of their application in spite of DNS. This is one of the things that led to many of the TTL ignorant application-level DNS caches which you are complaining about.

I have found some carriers to run hacked nameservers. Several years ago I was moving a website and found that Cox was overriding the TTL for all "www" names. At least for their residential customers in Oklahoma. The TTL value our test subject was getting was larger than it had ever been set. -- Mr. Flibble King of the Potato People