From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 1 17: 9: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (ipl-229-095.npt-sdsl.stargate.net [208.223.229.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2EBA37B400 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 17:09:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from shazam.int (shazam.int [192.168.5.3]) by w2xo.pgh.pa.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA84434; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 01:09:00 GMT (envelope-from durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 20:09:06 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Durham X-Sender: durham@shazam.int To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: web hosting with a dynamic IP address question In-Reply-To: <14887.12429.593035.880266@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Mike Meyer wrote: > Jim Durham types: > > On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, David Banning wrote: > > Interesting! I have been wondering about dynamic dns. What do > > they do about caching name servers? I find that changing the > > DNS entry takes a couple days to propagate.. > > All real dns servers cache. But the length of time they can cache an > entry is controled by the people who control the servers for that > domain. Servers for dynamic versions set that time to *very* short, so > the changes propagate quickly. The downside is that their servers get > pounded for updates. > However, some domains have rules as to the minimum time to live that you can spec. -Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message