TTL Question

[Mike Diggins]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> 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?

Yes it was, and I can confirm that was done.

-Mike