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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