How to adjust TTL ? (Thanks.)

[Niall O'Reilly]

On 15 Jun 2005, at 00:32, Sylvan Andrew wrote:

>  Where in named do I configure the TTL for resolved addresses ? For 
> example
> if I ping www.google.com our DNS server resolves the address and 
> everything
> is fine. But if I ping www.google.com again say after 2 hours of the 
> first
> resolution it has to go off and resolve the IP again. Is that normal ? 
> I
> would prefer for various network reasons it kept the first record it 
> found
> in it's own table for at least 8 hours. Could somebody please tell me 
> how to
> achieve this ?

The record(s) for www.google.com belong to Google; they decide what the 
TTL
for their records should be.  You can't: it's not your call.

/Niall