>Very interesting. We've all heard and probably all passed along that little >bromide at one time or another. Is it possible that at one time it was true >(even possibly for AOL) but with the rise of CDNs, policies of not honoring >TTL's have fallen by the wayside?
I think you'll still see it in spam zombies, some of which have the DNS info pre-loaded into them in order to avoid split-horizon anti-spam techniques. Not much we can do about that until we get sufficient backbone to deal with the zombie problem and its software enablers. Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
