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

Yesterday when I was troubleshooting this on the phone with the tech, google's
servers were returning different (correct) results than were the GCI servers.
I finally deleted the DNS records out-right on the old host, and now I guess
that finally forced GCI's servers to go re-fetch the whois information. In
this case, it wasn't so much that they were caching the DNS records too long
(the TTLs were right) but it seemed they were caching the whois information
too long.

j

On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 16:10:00 William McKinney wrote:
> 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:
> >
> > 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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> > 907-748-2200
> > JP Technical
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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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