-------- In message <[email protected]>, Hal Mu rray writes:
>Is DNS light weight enough that it's not worth the effort to avoid extra >lookups? > >Can the DNS TTL be used for that? I'm not a DNS wizard, but I don't think >the data files feeding the current DNS servers are setup to process >valid-until-xxxx. A cron job could update the TTL each night. Not quite. You put a file on the server that says "You can serve these entries with a TTL of (whatever number of seconds you like). Clients do a lookup and get the TTL and don't need to do another lookup until the TTL expires. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
