DNS migration and folks that don't play nice

[Mark Komarinski]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:04:53AM -0400, Cole Tuininga wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Any evidence of this?  I've got a friend at AOL (who knows of such 
things) and says they're using BIND and thus are honoring TTL.

-Mark
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