[sclug] DNS caching brokenness

[Roland Turner SCLUG]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:59:19PM +0000, Simon Heywood wrote:

> I've been trying to diagnose a problem with one of the DNS resolvers run
> by my ADSL provider, Zen Internet. Six days ago I redelegated one of my
> domains (triv.org.uk) to a new set of authoritative name servers, but
> the resolver in question still hands out the old records:

Having previously been a Zen customer (office, rather than home), I can
tell you that their DNS secondaries are pretty badly broken; in
particular they cache stuff too long. I set up a local free-standing
resolver to get around this.

- Raz