Someone correct me if Iım wrong here but I donıt see whois info as all
that important. I manage DNS servers for my domain and any time I want to
make sure theyıre working I use ³dig². If the records I get back are
correct Iım good.
-- Damien HullNetwork Engineer CCNP On 3/12/14, 10:37 AM, "Leif Sawyer" <lsawyer@gci.com> wrote: >Pretty sure there's no such thing as an whois cache. > >What commands exactly were you performing to make you think that whois >was in line? > >Because whois and DNS have nothing to do with each other; they're >separate registries, and deal with completely different data. > >- Past DNS and whois admin. > >"Joshua J. Kugler" <joshua@eeinternet.com> wrote: > > >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.> >> > _____ _____ >> > >> > /\___ \/\ __`\ >> > \/__/\ \ \ \_\ \ >> > >> > _\ \ \ \ ,__/ >> > >> > /\ \_\ \ \ \/ >> > \ \____/\ \_\ >> > >> > \/___/ \/_/ >> > >> > 907-748-2200 >> > JP Technical >> > helpdesk@jptechnical.com >> > >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Joshua Kugler >> >> Part-Time System Admin/Programmer >> >> http://www.eeinternet.com - Fairbanks, AK >> >> PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0x73B13B6A >> >> --------- >> >> To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org> >> >> with 'unsubscribe' in the message body. > >-- >Joshua Kugler >Part-Time System Admin/Programmer >http://www.eeinternet.com - Fairbanks, AK >PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0x73B13B6A >--------- >To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org> >with 'unsubscribe' in the message body. > >--------- >To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org> >with 'unsubscribe' in the message body. > --------- To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org> with 'unsubscribe' in the message body.Received on Wed Mar 12 10:50:42 2014
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