That’s all good and fine for your DNS, but it did nothing for me when Peter from www.BeckmanPimpsStereos.com was calling every 3 minutes screaming that his web site has been down for a day and that he’s losing “millions of dollars”, all because we just had to migrate his ColdFusion site off a yellowing-beige NT4 box running vintage IIS to PrimeHostOutsourcerOne and now all the locals on DopeCable can’t access it…
— Sent from mobile, with due apologies for brevity and errors. > On Jan 20, 2022, at 8:50 PM, Peter Beckman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hahaha yeah, thanks Residential ISPs, your DNS sucks. I always found a > better caching resolver, like UUNET, until Verizon got better at it, and > then Google DNS came along. > > The caches have cleared. > > Beckman > >> On Thu, 20 Jan 2022, Alex Balashov wrote: >> >> Why, back in my day, residential ISPs would ignore your TTLs and cache for 3 >> days no matter what you did… >> Kids these days. >> — Alex >> >>>> On Jan 20, 2022, at 7:54 PM, Peter Beckman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Please, y'all -- when doing a DNS migration, ensure 1000% that your DNS >>> records on your old DNS provider match your DNS records on your new DNS >>> provider, and plan your DNS migration early by setting the TTL for your NS >>> records at least to 5 minutes (300 seconds) if allowed, 30 seconds if you >>> can. >>> Assume all caching servers will cache for 5 minutes even if you set it to >>> 30 seconds. >>> At least that way if things go wrong, your outage horizon is 5 minutes, not >>> 1 hour or more!!! >> >> -- >> Alex Balashov | Principal | Evariste Systems LLC >> >> Tel: +1-706-510-6800 / +1-800-250-5920 (toll-free) >> Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.csrpswitch.com/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> VoiceOps mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Peter Beckman Internet Guy > [email protected] https://www.angryox.com/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops
