On Wednesday 17 Nov 2004 5:07 pm, Dave Warren wrote: > > I usually enter the domain into my system and create an empty zonefile > (Contains SOA and NS records, but nothing else) just to avoid the alem > delegation issue, but I'd rather not have any nameservers at all because > it means when the customer does decide to light up the domain, they have > to wait up to 72 hours for my NS to disappear from caches > > (Remember, additions and changes are entered into the roots > semi-realtime, but already cached info needs 72 hours to drop out)
Only if it has been used recently, only if no more authoritative data exists, and the queries succeed (? which should never happen). So if you have pointed it at a holding domain, you control the TTL not Verisign (or whoever). This 72 hour on delegations should never cause a problem - has been discussed to death in comp.protocols.dns.bind amongst other places.
