A question regarding the db.cache file

[Brad Knowles]

At 4:07 PM +0200 2005-07-13, Klas Bengtsson wrote:

>  Thanks for your answer. Do you happen to know with what amount the RTT
>  is slowly reduced?

	It's an exponential backoff algorithm, but I don't recall the 
specifics.  More detail can surely be had in the RFCs and the book 
_DNS and BIND_ by Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu.

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