DNS migration and folks that don't play nice

[Cole Tuininga]

Preface - 

The folks on the sys-admin list are talking about the migration of
services from the older server to the newer server.  Of course, one of
the issues that's come up is DNS.  This led to the following snippet:

On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 09:04 -0400, wrote:
> > Well, there's at least one easy workaround for that, aside from the
> > obvious (shorten TTL ahead of time, to force fast propagation).
> 
> Unfortunately, shortening the TTL doesn't work for clients (like AOL)
> that cache/maintain their own DNS.

I was curious - how do folks in general deal with this?  While AOL can
certainly constitute a large number of users, my inclination is to say
"hell with 'em".  If they can't conform to proper netiquette, why should
I be bending over backwards to support them?

I was just curious to get other folks' take on this quasi-philosophical
point.

-- 
Cole Tuininga <colet at code-energy.com>