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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


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