Re: [cobalt-users] Newbie Questions -- help!

[Paul Schreiber <cheesefactory@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 05:23 PM 3/14/00 -0800, you wrote:
> 
> >How long do secondary DNS servers hold the info. i.e. say my primary
> >DNS dies all of a sudden, but httpd is still running. if someone
> >tries to find my site, can they?
> 
> Still haven't bought a copy of "DNS and Bind", have you <smile>?

We had one at my last job, but I couldn't figure the damned thing out. Nor
the sendmail book. :)
 
> I don't know <smile>.  You can always update it yourself if you don't
> mind breaking your warranty <smile>.

Doesn't telnetting into the box void your warranty? :-)

> >My friend has a dynamic IP and uses yi.org for dynamic DNS. They have
> his TTL set to 2 minutes. :-)
> 
> They're obviously quite Internet unfriendly.  It's a good thing his site
> isn't too popular.  

He doesn't host a "real" site on it, it's just his personal box, so
traffic's not an issue.

> Too much DNS traffic is a bad thing, and can get a lot 
> of aggressive admins to block your site completely. 

Really? I thought DNS traffic is negligible? Didn't network solutions tun
all the root servers off two T1s or something?

> Does he have to update it at <yi.org>, or does his system notify them to
> do it automatically whenever his IP changes?

There's some sort of daemon or cron job that notifies yi.org when the IP
changes.

This is all the fault of Bell and their stupid PPPoE nonsense. I wish they
handed out static IPs. </rant>


Paul

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