IP failover/migration question.

Tue Jun 27 15:29:56 UTC 2006

On Jun 27, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:51:30 BST, Andy Davidson said:
>> Popular web browsers running on popular desktop operating systems
>> also display extra-long dns cache time 'bugs'.
>
> A well known fact, which leads right into your next comment...
>
>> 24 hours + outage whilst stale dns disappears will never do in
>> internet retail.
>
> And yet, with 90% of the net implementing the "will never do"  
> scenario,
> we manage to get a lot of internet retail done anyhow.  I'm  
> obviously going
> to need a *lot* more caffeine to sort through that conundrum....

We do because we don't wait for DNS to time out in broken browsers,  
we have actual multi-homing with real networks.

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TTFN,
patrick