Hmm....that's very interesting. I'm no expert either and I would like to know if that is what that field actually does. Reading all the documentation that I have I never really figured out what that meant...
Any experts out there want to enlighten us on this subject?? Leonard Leblanc ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 5:43 PM Subject: Re: DNS Records - changing programmatically? > I'm not a DNS expert, so correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the TTL > field affect this? I've set the TTL field (as well as refresh and retry, > since I'm not totally clear on the functions of each) to 3600 and when I > have the DNS records manually most remote hosts seem to find me within > an hour, some of them even faster. > > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 07:38:52PM -0800, Leonard Leblanc wrote: > > It's a great idea, but unfortunately when DNS records are changed it takes > > 24-72 hours for the change to take affect through all the root name servers. > > The best bet that I can think of is run two nameservers (with linux boxes) - > > one on each line and if one can't be found the DNS records will > > automatically check the other nameserver. This will give you comlpete > > control of the nameserver as you have it in-house and you can do basically > > whatever you want. I don't know a whole lot about the subject but I > > currently run a Linux box with DNS and it's really quite easy to setup and > > learnt alot from the great Linux HOWTOs that are on www.linuxdoc.org > > (firewall/proxy, DNS, Domain, etc.etc.etc.) > > -- > "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.com/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
