DNS Cache, database backends...

[James Raftery]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 09:33:48AM +0000, Jim Reid wrote:
> Who's to say what data in the cache dump file is
> valid when the server read in this file at startup (assuming it
> could)?

The zone administrator who set the TTLs says how long data remains 
valid. When the data is read by the nameserver as it starts it discards
records whose TTLs have expired and keeps the rest (assuming it could).

Regards,

james
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