[dns-operations] Who Ignores TTLs ?

[Warren Kumari]

On Feb 16, 2011, at 9:01 PM, Simon Lyall wrote:

>
> I keep seeing a persistent complaint that some DNS caching operators  
> ignore TTLs or otherwise keep records for longer than the TTL would  
> indicate.
>
> I suspect this might be an urban legend since most DNS caching  
> software doesn't even offer this as an option last time I checked.

I suspect that the genesis of this belief is from an Online provider  
in America.

They used to ignore all TTLs and overwrite them with (AFAIR), 6 hours,  
but stopped this practice sometime before 2005 -- unfortunately it has  
become ingrained wisdom that is hard to shift.

The other part of the story is applications that call gethostbyname()  
(or equivalent) at startup / initial connection and keep the result  
until they die. This used to be even more common, but now that  
(apparently) all the world is a webbrowser this isn't as common....

w


>
> Does anybody actually do this? Because it keep being brought up by  
> some peopel as to why things like GSLB don't work.
>
>
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