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wrote on 06/21/2007 09:20:52 AM:

> Let's hope that the TTL of the cached DNS RR isn't too long so that
> when a change of IP address occurs for the "A" record, that the
> recursive name server caches don't purge next year

If you meant to say "until next year", I agree.

> or something like that ;-)

Um, yeah.  :)

But a TTL that high is just really bad design and you deserve whatever
problems occur as a result.  More than a few hours is awfully high.  If
you have to set it higher because of server load, then you need
more/bigger servers or you're getting hit with a denial of service attack.


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