I'm so confused!!

[David Spigelman]

Barry Margolin wrote:

> Whatever you want.  The TTL is how long it can take for a change to
> propagate to the rest of the net, due to caching.  You have to compromise
> between quick propagation and increased load on the authoritative servers.
>
> We use 1 day as our default TTL.
>
> Why don't you just use whatever you were using before, in the SOA record?
> All that's changed in BIND 8.2 is where BIND looks for the default TTL, not
> how you decide what to use as the TTL.

Which entry in the SOA record was the TTL? There's the serial number, refresh rate,
retry, expiry and minimum. I'm not sure which number I should use as the base.

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David Spigelman
Network Administrator
American Center for Physics
College Park, MD