Re: [cobalt-users] Mexican ISP + RaQ3 = Aye Caramba!

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Fritsch wrote:

> I was thinking it must take forever for DNS to propagate down to other
> countires. We are fortunate to have such good technology in the US.

If your DNS is properly set up, new domains "propogate" immediately.

Changes to domains propogate to DNS servers as soon as their TTL
expires.  It's non-compliant mailservers, caches, and broken DNS servers
used at major ISPs (and non-ISPs masquerading at ISPs so they can say
they're the largest ISPs in the world) that hold up propogation.  And
those are issues for those ISPs customers to address.

True, AOL isn't going to double their DNS-related traffice because one
customer complains, but when the customer is told, "sorry we break the
rules and do it this way for our own convenience" the customer knows
where the problem lies, and can migrate to an ISP with clue.

Jeff
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