[aklug] Re: GCI caching DNS/whois too long?

Not that it helps, but I have had frequent dns caching issues over the last
decade and a half and nobody have ever given me a straight answer. Someone
probably knows, and maybe they are monitoring this list, but if you find
out please email back to let me know. It feels a little like being held
hostage.

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On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@eeinternet.com>wrote:

> So, I have some sites which had their whois info change on Sunday. I can
> get
> to the correct IPs from ACS DNS. However, I'm still seeing old IP addresses
> when querying for those records on GCI. Examples:
>
> joshuakugler.com
> azariah.com
>
> Those point to the old text drive host.
>
> I just got off the phone with a GCI support person (who appeared pretty
> knowledgeable). He said GCI was caching the (whois?) information for seven
> days, so would always be looking at the old DNS servers until such a time
> as
> seven days expire, or the old DNS server doesn't respond as authoritative.
> The TTL's on the old records, by the way are only 40 minutes. I was under
> the
> impression that whois changes for supposed to propagate within a day or
> two,
> and DNS servers were supposed to honor upstream TTL's.
>
> Is GCI getting that "seven day" figure from somewhere? Or are they
> arbitrarily
> caching records for longer than they should?
>
> j
>
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