Travelling the backway to Google

Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. LarrySheldon at cox.net
Wed Jun 16 23:48:39 UTC 2004


Jared Mauch wrote:


> 	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...

One of us thinks the shor TTL is at the heart of the Akamai "system".

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