[VoiceOps] DIDWW API DNS Issue

[Mike Johnston]

Losing millions of dollars.  Very nicely said.

Then there are those that move their website, with their DNS, to a 
different provider, and are then confused as to why their email is 
broken.  Of course it is the email providers fault, and they have no 
comprehension that it might somehow be related to the recent changes 
with their website.


On 2022-01-20 20:03, Alex Balashov wrote:
> 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…
> 
> —
> Sent from mobile, with due apologies for brevity and errors.
> 
>> 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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