TTL Question

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Mike Diggins wrote:

> What dictates how long another name server caches the authoritative name 
> server for a domain? I was under the impression it was the default 
> time-to-live, but I have a situation where an authoritative name server 
> was removed from service several days ago, yet queries to it continue. Dig 
> is correctly reporting the new authoritative name servers for the domain 
> in question. How common is it for DNS servers to ignore the ttl?

How was the authoritative name server removed from service? Via your
registrar?

  Jeremy C. Reed