RE: [cobalt-users] FW: Name-based host problem

["Dan" <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My experience in the very recent past has been seeing sites accessible via
AOL before other ISPs. Maybe this was only temporary while AOL was in that
experimental program of new registrars. I just changed the DNS info for some
sites Saturday, and AOL is pointing to the new IP today.

--
Dan Kriwitsky


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of ISP
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 4:06 PM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] FW: Name-based host problem
>
>
> Thanks Jeff...this is what I was looking for. I think I can figure it out
> from here.
> How bad is AOL on honoring the TTL? This domain was updated last Thursday
> and AOL
> is not even displaying the correct page for the IP site. Does AOL 5.0
> support name-based?
> I thought it was using IE5?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jeff Lasman
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 1:36 PM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] FW: Name-based host problem
>
>
>
> So my name-based hosts' owners can find their sites before DNS propogates,
> and so that users with really old browsers can do the same, here's what I
> recommend to my dns customers (we run a dns business under <ns-one.net>):
>
> Always run one IP-based site for the IP.  That site should go to a page
> with hard links on it to all name-based sites.  Those links should be
> symbolic directory links inside the directory pointed to by the IP-based
> site.  This will always work.
>
> The rest of the sites should be name-based.
>
>
>
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