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Re: OT: AOL TTL
From: Mia''s Virtual Post Office
Date: Tuesday, August 27, 2002
Time: 12:53:52 pm
On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 06:08 AM, Len Conrad wrote:
>
>> AOL will completely ignore your TTl, and change whenever they deign.
>> I
>> believe it's generally two weeks, but I may be wrong on that, and
>> they may
>> be inconsistent too.
>
> I think they protect themselves from idiocies of TTL's set at 15 or 60
> seconds, and simply upgrade those TTL's to an AOL-minium TTL of, say,
> some 10's of minutes. I don't think they would up it to 2 weeks,
> since that would really hinder their delivery to a valid MX / A that
> changed.
>
> Note that AOL's own MX hostname ip's are set to .... 300. :))
>
>
Nah, I have seen it take up to two weeks on average for AOL to figure
out what the rest of the world is doing.. This is a fact. They have
this mind set at TW that everyone in the world uses them and their
network so who cares about the rest of the world.
Regards,
Jeremy Anthony Kinsey
VP Network Operations Colocate Your Server at hostdrive.com
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