[outages] Belkin [heartbeat.belkin.com]

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Loftis via Outages" <outages at outages.org>

> It's not just the local. 8.8.8.8 is caching the old entry still.
> Check the authoritative resolvers.

Point of order:

No "resolvers" are "authoritative".  "Resolvers" (or, more fully, "Customer
resolver servers") are servers operated (generally) by "eyeball carriers" 
for their end-users to utilize to do DNS lookups, so that the end users
are not required to operate a resolver themselves -- which most enduser 
operating systems have not, historically done.  Resolvers do the recursing
for you, and return a non-authoritative response.

Putting this at the ISP level leverages caching (though sometimes 
pathologically).

Many edge routers perform this task, though not all.

"Authoritative" is a term used to describe a "Zone" server; one which has
a current local or slaved copy of the actual source data for a zone.  
Queries directly to a zone server will have the authoritative bit set.

Cheers,
-- jra
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