[VoiceOps] DIDWW API DNS Issue

[Alex Balashov]

That’s all good and fine for your DNS, but it did nothing for me when Peter from www.BeckmanPimpsStereos.com was calling every 3 minutes screaming that his web site has been down for a day and that he’s losing “millions of dollars”, all because we just had to migrate his ColdFusion site off a yellowing-beige NT4 box running vintage IIS to PrimeHostOutsourcerOne and now all the locals on DopeCable can’t access it…

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> On Jan 20, 2022, at 8:50 PM, Peter Beckman <beckman at angryox.com> wrote:
> 
> Hahaha yeah, thanks Residential ISPs, your DNS sucks. I always found a
> better caching resolver, like UUNET, until Verizon got better at it, and
> then Google DNS came along.
> 
> The caches have cleared.
> 
> Beckman
> 
>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2022, Alex Balashov wrote:
>> 
>> Why, back in my day, residential ISPs would ignore your TTLs and cache for 3 days no matter what you did… 
>> Kids these days. 
>> — Alex
>> 
>>>> On Jan 20, 2022, at 7:54 PM, Peter Beckman <beckman at angryox.com> wrote:
>>> Please, y'all -- when doing a DNS migration, ensure 1000% that your DNS
>>> records on your old DNS provider match your DNS records on your new DNS
>>> provider, and plan your DNS migration early by setting the TTL for your NS
>>> records at least to 5 minutes (300 seconds) if allowed, 30 seconds if you
>>> can.
>>> Assume all caching servers will cache for 5 minutes even if you set it to
>>> 30 seconds.
>>> At least that way if things go wrong, your outage horizon is 5 minutes, not
>>> 1 hour or more!!!
>> 
>> -- 
>> Alex Balashov | Principal | Evariste Systems LLC
>> 
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> Peter Beckman                                                  Internet Guy
> beckman at angryox.com                                https://www.angryox.com/
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