How to adjust TTL ? (Thanks.)
Niall O'Reilly
niall.oreilly at ucd.ie
Wed Jun 15 13:17:26 UTC 2005
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
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