Re: About the slowness of gmail's DNS servers
Jose Celestino wrote:
> Words by Thomas Goirand [Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 07:09:36PM +0800]:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It's been the 2nd time that I'm having problems with gmail not seeing my
>> DNS updates after more than 24 hours, when the TTL is less than 2 hours.
>> Other DNS servers from other ISP have no problem. It's quite annoying as
>> my client is complaining, and it's hard to say "gmail is wrong, they
>> don't do like they should and like everybody does". My customer will
>> just not trust that.
>>
>
> How come it will not trust? Is gmail the reference? Don't recall that
> being so...
>
No, but many people certainly think so. If Google is doing it, they're
obviously right. Here's a story I shared with spam-l a while back about
a similar experience with one of my customers:
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I had a customer today complain that someone they regularly email (using
gmail for domains) was being blocked by psbl.surriel.com. After looking
at what the spamtrap had collected [from google spamming], it seems to
be rather obvious why. I've been spammed by google/gmail personally.
Nothing new to me.
However, I'm sharing this with the fine readers of SPAM-L because my
customer told me that these were false positives. [The customer told me
that] Google is a big provider and using a DNSBL that blocks when a
google server feeds a honeypot with 419 or lottery scam crap is not a
good idea.
I told him to add it to his whitelist, or remove that DNSBL from his
config, but that we would not be removing it from the default config.
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Google does bad things, wrong things, and people think I'm wrong because
there's no possible way Google could be at fault.
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Seth Mattinen sethm@rollernet.us
Roller Network LLC
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