On Monday, December 1, 2003, 18:37:49, R. Scott Perry wrote: >>I did not want to use DNS because of propagation time. In addition, >>if the customer knows the IP address they can still get to the server. > > Just an FYI -- the idea of uncontrolled "DNS propagation" is mostly a > myth. The amount of time between making a DNS change and having the DNS > entries used by 100% of the Internet is under your control in most > cases. Essentially, it's [1] the TTL value for the DNS record in question > plus [2] the amount of time it takes your backup DNS servers to update when > the information is changed on the primary DNS server.
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