From:	Brian Moore airionis@*****.com
Subject:	[DNS] Stuff still isn't working properly... -Reply
Date:	Wed, 3 Feb 1999 18:11:13 -0800 (PST)

---Lehlan Decker <DeckerL@******.com> wrote:
>
> >After looking at the zone files, I noticed a very, very long TTL and
> >Expire in the SOA, so I fixed it. Now if it gets buggered it won't
> >take 10 years to expire the bad data before requesting it again. I
> >hate DNS.
>
> Heh...true, but its better then having to remember ip numbers.
> (Well usually). The problem is usually the people running DNS
> barely understand it, and then your have some poor souls
> running DNS on NT, and the problem goes down hill from there.
> I had to deal with AT&T not too long ago to update our DNS
> records, it scares me when I have to tell them where to look and
> what to change.

<geekspeak>
I had to tell someone today that we couldn't access their web site
because they didn't update the serial number in their SOA record, so
their changes didn't propogate to the secondary DNS servers (psi.net).
He got a clue (after I refreshed his memory on the use of serial
numbers) and fixed up his system. But then PSI took most of the day
to refresh one of their servers. I don't know if their other server
ever updated.
</geekspeak>
=Brian Moore, GAMER, Unix admin, DB admin, Network
admin, programmer, father of 3, and very busy.

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