[Coco] domain names

James Dessart james at skwirl.ca
Thu Sep 16 14:06:53 EDT 2004



On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Roger Taylor wrote:

> What about the delay it takes for DNS info to get updated at all the ISPs 
> around the globe?  Somebody out there is bound to be pointing to your old 
> IP address(es).

The way DNS works is that the IPs for a given domain are only stored on
one server. Sometimes servers implement caching, to speed up queries, but
for the most part those caches don't stay around for very long.

James




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