15 Mar
2006
15 Mar
'06
11:09 a.m.
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Simon Waters wrote:
This behavior is unfortunately not unique.
Alas what others peoples servers do, shouldn't be an issue for you. Your problem is they can be coerced into a DoS attack, not that the data is stale.
actually, dos-attack-aside, the interesting thing is that lots of people (original poster perhaps included) believe that TTL's are adhered to except in some marginal cases. I think Rodney's point is that they are not adhered to anywhere near as much as we would all like to believe :( So, if you, or the original poster, is going to move ${important_resource} around ip-wise keep in mind that your ${important_thing} may have to answer to more than 1 ip address for a period much longer than your tuned TTL :(