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From: Bradley Dunn <dunn@harborcom.net>
To: Robert Shady <rls@mail.id.net>
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Subject: Re: redundant news systems
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On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Robert Shady wrote:

> Do you have some special way of telling your DNS server that your TTL for
> news.mei.com is differrent than the TTL for ftp..mei.com, or the MX
> record for mei.com??

Yes. See section 6.5 of BOG or RFC1035. The TTL in the SOA record is the
minimum.

-BD