Web Hostig Problem

[Allen Taylor]

On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 05:50:26PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> On 7/7/07, Allen Taylor <tlug-G8usDCtqe957Ar2qsurDTA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > . . .
> >One of the many reasons I dropped Rogers 3 years ago for my home/office
> >access was the constant downtime (from minutes to hours) and
> >mis-configuration of their DNS servers. They also tend to cache DNS info
> >for up to 48 hours, no matter what the root DNS says about refresh
> >times.
> >
> >I'm much happier now on Teksavvy.
> 
> Isn't this more an argument for pointing one of your resolver entries
> to [someone else]?
> 
> Admittedly, if they're not very competent, that's good reason to look
> elsewhere, but I don't think you're particularly forced to use their
> DNS cacheing...

I was only vaguely aware of how DNS worked - just knew I had problems.

I know a lot more about DNS now then I did then!   :-)
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