[Outages-discussion] Wikipedia suffers global outage.

[Chris Adams]

> Update: Unfortunately, for many, this outage seems to have lasted longer
> than an hour. It appears that many ISPs’ DNS resolvers do not honor the
> so-called Negative Cache TTL that we send (1 hour), and instead use a
> longer value. We have circumvented this problem by renaming the affected
> DNS record to something else.

I'm curious: what software/settings are these "many ISPs" using that
does this?  I've seen this mentioned before, but BIND for example
doesn't have an option to do this IIRC.

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.