On 10/10/2011 11:13 AM, enigmedia wrote:
On 10/10/2011 9:26 AM, Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP wrote:
If you are going to update the IP and TTL, why not adjust both?  This will
take care of some broken DNS packages.
Hth
Thanks, I had googled around a bit and saw some conflicting opinions about
whether TTL'ing the MX was necessary or even a good idea...but I don't know if
that concern is still true or not?

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On Oct 10, 2011, at 10:42 AM, "enigmedia"<online-...@enigmedia.com>  wrote:

Hi All: If I need to set a short TTL prior to an MX IP change, do I need to
modify the TTL of the MX record, or just the A record the MX points to?
(There's just a single A record for the MX).


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There's no point ever changing the TTL of records that are not going to change. All that does is increase traffic unnecessarily.

So, if the MX record stays the same, but the A record(s) to which the MX target(s) resolve are going to be changing, modify the TTL of the A record(s) only.

You should only change both if both sets of records are going to change.

I'm not sure what "brokenness" is being referred to. Is some implementation of a DNS resolver going to *stop* resolving an MX record just because the TTL of the A record(s) of the MX target(s) expired and were re-fetched? I've been doing DNS and SMTP for a _long_ time, and I've never seen such "brokenness"...

- Kevin

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