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Re:Posterous is being DDoS'd by avar on Friday August 13, 2010 @07:34PM (#1602612)
Relying on a DNS TTL of 5 minutes doesn't work everywhere. Some ISPs will forcefully reset any TTL below 24 hours to 24h.
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Re:Posterous is being DDoS'd by thaumaturgy on Friday August 13, 2010 @08:55PM (#1602713)
AT&T/sbcglobal being one.
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Re:Posterous is being DDoS'd by sabat on Friday August 13, 2010 @11:39PM (#1602897)
Absolutely true, and completely ridiculous. What, DNS bandwidth is too high? Please.
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Re:Posterous is being DDoS'd by avar on Friday August 13, 2010 @11:55PM (#1602914)
Well, not following the RFCs is bad, but I can see why they do it.

Most people using low TTLs probably don't know what they're doing, and if you're a big ISP having to constantly make recursive queries hurts page load times for your customers, who'll blame you.

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