DNS client cache time to live

[Barry Margolin]

In article <38CD4005.B07E8F4C at cetelem.com.br>,
Marcelo Lemes de Camargo  <mlemes at cetelem.com.br> wrote:
>How long a DNS client cache remain active? For example if I change
>a workstation address at DNS server, how many time the client need
>to update the cache?? There is any parameter to adjust this time??
>I'm using bind 8.1.2 with Solaris 2.7.

You control this via the TTL of the record.  In BIND 8.1.x and lower, the
MinTTL field of the SOA record specifies the default TTL of all the
records.

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