How to override too-short TTL?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9lrorp$4rs at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Daemeon Reiydelle  <daemeonr at anthros.com> wrote:
>I am seeing more and more 1-2 minute ttl's as part of a lame round-robin
>DNS (Dice, Ebay, to name a few). I do not consider this to be an
>acceptable use, and want to reduce the load on my web cache as well as
>my DNS server by reducing this to a more "reasonable" value?

It seems to me that this is misguided.  Increasing TTLs reduces the load on
the authoritative servers, since caching servers will be able to respond on
their behalf more often; if the authoritative server ownsers are willing to
put up with their increased load, that's not your problem.  It may also
improve user response times, since they'll get their answer from a local
cache more often.  But I don't see how it will reduce the load on your web
cache or DNS server.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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