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Date:      Sun, 11 Jul 2004 15:56:06 -0700
From:      Kevin Stevens <freebsd@pursued-with.net>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DNS server
Message-ID:  <7E3F9EAF-D38D-11D8-8BF2-000A95D7C3C6@pursued-with.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040711194631.GA86108@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <5ef172bb040711092955912d06@mail.gmail.com> <200407111256.09120.ecrist@secure-computing.net> <6.1.1.1.2.20040711130345.0434ea48@81.255.84.73> <200407111328.28485.ecrist@secure-computing.net> <6.1.1.1.2.20040711134443.035b7ba8@81.255.84.73> <20040711194631.GA86108@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>

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On Jul 11, 2004, at 12:46, Matthew Seaman wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 01:53:22PM -0500, Len Conrad wrote:
>
>>> a domain needs to be added to before it will function correctly.
>>> This is known as propagation.
>>
>> the misnomer propagation is used by people who think DNS data needs  
>> time to
>> be available, to "propagate", over several days or a week, for all of
>> Internet.  This is pure BS. There is no such concept in DNS.

And FYI, speaking of DNS updating:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/11/ 
1741225&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=95

KeS



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