From kde-devel Sat May 06 01:24:12 2000 From: Uwe Thiem Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 01:24:12 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Move to SourceForge X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=95757681031294 On Fri, 5 May 2000, Konrad Wojas wrote: > On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 12:24:43AM -0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > On Thu, 4 May 2000, Kurt Granroth wrote: > > > > > In any event, I was just told that there might be a way to have the > > > DNS change happen within seconds. We'll see tomorrow :-) > > > > You tell me how I'll believe it (perhaps). DNS is a distributed > > database with lots of (distributed) caches. If you find a method to > > propagate DNS changes through the whole Internet within seconds > > you'll on your way to a millionaire (besides becoming the hero of > > all network admins ;-). > > It's possible to change the DNS record timeout value to a few minutes > today to make all DNS cache's check the record more often and change it > back to a few hours tomorrow once the record is updated. All cache's > should be updated in a few minutes this way. Sure it's possible. Just don't do it if you don't want to get into a quarral with root server administrators. I for one would pull the plug on DNS servers that do that. It's an abuse. Uwe ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Uwe Thiem Tel: +264 - 61 - 249249 P.O.Box 30955 Email: uwe@uwix.alt.na Windhoek uwe@kde.org Republic of Namibia http://www.kde.org ********************************** You can still escape from the GATES of hell: Use KDE! -------------------------------------------------------------------------