Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 11:43:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Chuck Rouillard <chuckr@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com> To: Rick Duvall <maillist@coastsight.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Named definitions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0105141129330.96402-100000@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com>
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On Mon, 14 May 2001, Rick Duvall mumbled: > What do the following mean, and what do they do? > > TTL > Refresh > Retry > Expire > > I *think* TTL is Time for DNS entry to live before it forgets the > entry. But if that's the case, then why is Expire there if TTL does > the same thing? Refresh I *think* is when it re-loads the DNS entry > from the main server, and retry I *think* is how often it tries to > get a DNS entry until successful. > > Please correct me on my thinking so that I understand this. [snip] http://www.garykessler.net/library/dns.html .cr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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