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

We get the same result from Google name servers as GCI's.

> On Mar 11, 2014, at 4:03 PM, JP <jp@jptechnical.com> wrote:
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> 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:
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>> joshuakugler.com
>> azariah.com
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>> Those point to the old text drive host.
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>> 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.
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>> Is GCI getting that "seven day" figure from somewhere? Or are they arbitrarily
>> caching records for longer than they should?
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>> j
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