Travelling the backway to Google

Wed Jun 16 23:35:50 UTC 2004

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 04:28:37PM -0700, Tony Rall wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, 2004-06-16 at 13:56 MST, "Duncan Meakins" 
> <duncanm at dccnet.com> wrote:
> > Is anyone aware of a non-akamized way to access google?
> 
> http://216.239.57.104
> 
> (No guarantee that that address will continue to work, but it currently 
> goes to one of their servers in Calif.)

	I think the question is truly this:

	some of the dns responses that i saw had low ttls, should
they use a longer ttl?

	the problems i saw were related to the data expiring from the cache,
some of this is to workaround broken clients/resolvers that will "latch"
on to one IP (as part of a load balancing solution), but IMHO
those people don't deserve internet service until their systems properly
do RR...

	so, should the ttl be more like 1h or 1d instead of less?

	(random thoughts)

	or perhaps some of these people may wish to run their own
nameservers and just use akamai for content?  then again, the whole
point of this is to outsource it, i'm sure these people have some SLA
in their contracts so are getting credits or somesuch..

	- jared

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