On May 13, 2006, at 2:01 PM, Herbert Graf wrote:
>
> Actually it's the best solution when you've run out of bandwidth. By
> redirecting to 127.0.0.1 you effectively use the least possible
> bandwidth per hit without actually having to turn off anything.
>
>
DNS entries aren't supposed to have timeouts so low that changing
the address is useful for anything as dynamic as fixing bandwidth
limitations; the previous address is very likely to be cached in
DNS servers all over the world for timeouts in the range of DAYS.

THe only use for 127.0.0.1 in a DNS table that I can think of is
if the site has some under some sort of DDOS attack based on a
bug they need to fix in a leisurely manner...

BillW

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