220152 - DNS: IP address changes of dynamic DNS-Servers not updated

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Ruben Kyczev]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

Surf to a site that is located on an webserver with a Dynamic DNS (e.g.
???.dyndns.org). If the servers IP address has changed while Firebird has not
been closed during the first access to this server, the browser still wants to
connect to the old IP though the DDNS entry has been updated. Seems to be some
caching-problem

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a HTML-page form a webserver with a Dynamic DNS through entering the
web-servers DDNS-name
2. Make the server change its IP-Adress (say reconnect if the servers got
dial-up connection)
3. Wait some minutes so that the DDNS-entry is updated to the new IP
4. Try to open another page on the DDNS-server by entering web-servers DDNS-name
5. The webserver is no longer found by firebird though other browsers can connect
Actual Results:  
Timeout

Expected Results:  
Update DDNS-entry to the new IP

Workaround. Close Firebird and start it again. Now you can get access to the
DDNS-server through entering its ddns-name (new IP is updated).

Comment 1

[Gilles Durys]

Maybe bug 151929

Comment 2

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Definitely 151929

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 151929 ***

Comment 3

[benc]

REOPEN: the duped bug was specifically about TTL, not cache lasting forever.

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

moving to the correct component

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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