TTL means Time To Live. It's a setting for DNS queries that tells your
nameserver to cache requests for as long as the TTL is set for. Typical
settings are 60 minutes or 6 hours. Nameservers are 'supposed' to honour
the TTL - some larger "ISPs" tend to rewrite the TTL to maintain better
caching performance.
Charles Daminato
TUCOWS Product Manager (ccTLDs)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Swerve wrote:
> Thanks for everyone's input. what does TTL stand for? What's the range
> of TTL time?
>
> swerve
>
> > From: Florian Effenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 19:14:19 +0100
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re[2]: nameserver change propagation ?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >> Chances are it is the dns caching the IP address for a long TTL
> >> time. Services like mydomain typically use long TTL's, and so your
> >> ISP's nameserver caches that data until the TTL has passed.
> >
> > I've also heard that providers like A*L use their "own" TTL time,
> > regardless of your DNS settings.
> >
> >
> >
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