>On 1/4/02 11:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Theoretically true. >> >> In real life, don't expect it to actually happen. AOL is notoriously >> slow about updating their DNS servers. In my neck of the woods, the >> University of Texas is also. I always assume that it'll be at least >> a week - and if I have the ability, a month - before everyone is >> getting the correct info. > >Other than on the defined authoratative DNS servers, there is nothing to >update. All other servers, once they've had to retrieve the data, cache it >for TTL seconds. After that, they're supposed to discard the data and >reacquire it from an authoratative server if it's requested again. > >So the only way a server could be "notoriously slow about updating their DNS >servers" is if they're not honoring the TTL and caching it longer than that >which would make their DNS server non-compliant with the appropriate RFCs. >
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