[thelist] DNS, specifically TTL

Anthony Baratta Anthony at Baratta.com
Wed Jan 10 22:15:28 CST 2001


At 03:32 PM 1/10/2001, you wrote:
>Will I cause volcanoes to erupt or hurricanes to form over the Caribbean if
>I set TTL (time to live) to be 10 seconds rather the default 10800?

There is a minimum Expire time based upon your Refresh time. e.g your 
Expire time can not be less that Refresh + Retry time.

Other than that - you should be ok. Just remember that the lower the time 
the higher the load on your and the requesting servers.
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Anthony Baratta
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