DNS migration and folks that don't play nice

[John Abreau]

Cole Tuininga wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 10:27 -0400, John Abreau wrote:
>> Cole Tuininga wrote:
>>
>> I wasn't aware that AOL was screwing this up as well. 
> 
> Last I was aware, AOL cached DNS entries for a minimum of two weeks, no
> matter what the TTL.
> 
>> However, I don't 
>> see anything that can be done about their blatant disregard for the way 
>> DNS is designed to work.
>>
>> Saying "the hell with 'em" is probably your only realistic option.
> 
> Well, some folks take the approach that they will try to make sure
> services remain forwarding for at least two weeks, to accommodate this.
> As I try to remember to set TTL's to a low value for a while before
> making changes, I usually say "to hell with 'em" and only support the
> forwarding for a little longer than the TTL allows fo
> 

If you're doing that for an enterprise, sure; but does GNHLUG have the 
resources and spare machine to do that for the server migration?

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