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Old 2009-05-26, 09:06 PM   #18
euphline
Aw, Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless
 
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Down with dumb ISPs

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Originally Posted by MeatPounder View Post
Well in moving over sexysmutlinks and click4sexfun, they propagated to my comcast at work within a few hours, but took almost 12 hrs longer to propagate to my att u-verse at home
This kind of behavior is generally caused by an ISP (in this case att u-verse) ignoring the refresh parameters on a domain. Some ISPs have decided "they know better" and ignore refresh values. This is frustrating as can be, and one of the reasons I run my own DNS server at home. This can have unintended consequences. During the Super Bowl, nfl.com generally gets changed to point to akamai. It gets changed back promptly thereafter. Customers of bad ISPs (AOL was notorious for this) get stuck on the "slow" server while customers of good ISPs are on the fast akamai cache.

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