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From: Ojaste,James [NCR] James.Ojaste@**.GC.CA
Subject: [DNS] Returned mail: Host unknown
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 08:40:29 -0500
Robert Watkins wrote:
> > I still get some posts that won't go through no matter how many times I
> > try sending it. Other posts have no troubles.
[snip]
> Give it a few days. The Internet doesn't believe in having configuration
> changes reflected instantly, you know... there's a definate propagation
> speed, and it's _slow_...
>
Yes, slow - slow on the order of hours, not a week. OK, maybe not quite
a week yet, but normally it should only take a maximum of 48 hours to
propogate a DNS address. There's something wrong.

James Ojaste

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