Microsoft Problems :-(

[Barry Margolin]

In article <94sgu6$s7 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Flame Tester  <netguy.REMOVE at northwestcomputer.com> wrote:
>Seems to me since Microsoft does not add to the main domains that
>often; if the update times were longer...say 48 hours before the
>secondaries got the latest and greatest, this probably could have been
>caught and held in the corp headquarters.  If they did need to update
>the secondaries, this could be done manually.  Gee, I volunteer to
>walk over and push the button!  Please note that at least they are on
>4 seperate networks which without looking further they probably have
>multiple paths to the backbone.

Since none of the 4 servers were responding, what difference does it make
what the refresh times are?  Both BIND 8+ and Microsoft DNS use the NOTIFY
mechanism to propagate changes to slave servers within minutes, the refresh
times are mostly irrelevant.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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