DNS TTLs revisited

David Botham DBotham at OptimusSolutions.com
Thu Feb 5 19:51:25 UTC 2004


bind-users-bounce at isc.org wrote on 02/05/2004 02:25:15 PM:
> My company is the holder of the domain netflame.cc
> 
> While the TTL on the domain has been set to 24 hours, we have set an 
> individual TTL on one particular machine (ssl-hints.netflame.cc) to 30 
seconds.
> 
> My question is this:
> 
> Does this play well across all DNS? I haven't done this until 9.x, so I 
> don't know about version 8 or, for that matter, version 4. Is there a 
> version out there where they only take the domain value (1 day) rather 
than 
> the individual value (30 sec)?

Reality is that, regardless of how you configure your zone db file, all RR 
always carry an explicit TTL.


Dave...


> 
> Thanks.
> 
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