Re: savannah trailing sources?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at alum dot bu dot edu>]

On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 10:17:40PM -0400, Jeff Sturm wrote:
>On Sun, 9 May 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>There is a problem with slow propagation of the new IP address, of
>>course.  That's not a problem with specific services on the system,
>>though.
>
>Of course a long TTL exacerbates the problem.

Yes.  This is part of what I meant by slow propagation.

>;; ANSWER SECTION:
>gcc.gnu.org.            86400   IN      A       12.107.209.250
>
>But, I'm guessing this isn't under your control either.  The TTL of
>sources.redhat.com is much more sane.

I don't control the domain info for either, actually.  I do control
cygwin.com, FWIW.

I found out about the need to move the system shortly before Frank
Eigler sent out email to everyone.

The need to move quickly came about from an unfortunate set of
circumstances that no one was happy about.  I don't think we're likely
to ever have to do something like that again.

cgf