Graham Murray wrote:
"Daryl C. W. O'Shea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Of course, my business DSL provider could be less brain dead and not
set a 30 min TTL for their entire forward zone (and 1 day for their
reverse zone), but I suspect there are lots of people out there in the
same situation.
Where the provider allows the domain owner to control the DNS for the
domain, eg via a web page, it makes sense to have a low TTL in order
to speed the propagation of any changes the customer may make.
Been there, got the t-shirt, designed & implemented the customer facing
application. I allowed them to control the TTL though and defaulted it
to 4 hours. Of course this was only for customers with more than one IP.
Anyway, that doesn't apply in this situation. They don't allow you to
edit the forward or reverse for your (one or many) static IP(s) and
won't do it for you either. Maybe that's why their machines have been
rooted so many times!
Even if they did allow such modification, having such a large difference
in forward vs reverse TTLs (1800 vs 86400) is rather painful when it
comes to mail server addressing. Not to mention completely pointless if
they're never going to change (like they haven't in many years).
Daryl
