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From: Robert Shady <rls@mail.id.net>
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Subject: Re: redundant news systems
In-Reply-To: <199610031638.LAA06994@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from Joe Greco at "Oct 3, 96 11:38:41 am"
To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco)
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 08:25:59 -0400 (EDT)
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> > Everyone should be concerned with reducing network traffic.
> > 
> > DNS is cached by everyone and everything, because although it seems
> > short and sweet, it's often slow.  Loading down nameservers unnecessarily
> > makes matters worse.
> > 
> > You and your systems aren't the only ones affected.
> 
> Why would anybody else's systems be doing dozens of name lookups per
> second for my news server?   They are not allowed to use my news server.
> Maybe they are just looking for a good time.  In any case, why should I
> worry about it?
> 
> Think about that for a bit and then get back to me, eh?  :-)

Do you have some special way of telling your DNS server that your TTL for
news.mei.com is differrent than the TTL for ftp..mei.com, or the MX
record for mei.com??

	-- Rob
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