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Date:      Mon, 14 May 2001 10:59:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Rick Duvall <maillist@coastsight.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Named definitions
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105141056580.25916-100000@ns1.coastsight.com>

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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.

Thanks.

Sincerely,

Rick Duvall


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