[BNM] DNS help

[Joe Aliferis]

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Joe


andrew holway wrote:
> Did you receive my test email? I sent that by hand using telnet.
> 
> If that works I would suggest that everything is normal.
> 
> Please send me back the full headers.
> 
> Ta
> 
> Andy
> 
> On 16/10/2007, Joe Aliferis <joe at newforms.co.uk> wrote:
>> thanks for that info
>>
>> Perhaps 123reg use a short timeout so that other DNS servers caches
>> require frequent updates...
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>
>>
>> Mark Ng wrote:
>>> On 16/10/2007, Joe Aliferis <joe at newforms.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> We understood that, although we used 123reg to manage DNS, we were not
>>>> dependant on the performance of their DNS servers, because of the nature
>>>>   of the way DNS propogates around the internet
>>> Whilst DNS propogates to local DNS servers, local DNS servers act as
>>> caches, not as authoritative sources.
>>>
>>> Whilst the nature of DNS means that not every request for your DNS
>>> records requires a trip to your DNS servers, the first request for any
>>> particular DNS record from a single location (a single location being
>>> one set of people using the same local DNS server) and each time the
>>> cache become invalid due to timeouts does require your DNS server to
>>> be working and not busy.
>>>
>>> Incidentally, I use 123reg, and their mail server stopped working
>>> properly a couple of days ago.  I've also seen a sharp drop in the
>>> number of users accessing my personal website.
>>>
>>> Mark
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