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Re: savannah trailing sources?
phil@jaj.com (Phil Edwards) wrote on 10.05.04 in <20040510045428.GA14706@disaster.jaj.com>:
> On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 10:55:19PM -0400, Matthew Galgoci wrote:
> > > > 3600 sounds about right.
> > >
> > > It's too late now. That should have been done several days *before*
> > > the move to make the switch to the new IP address easier...
> > >
> > > Or are you planning another move?
> >
> > I'm not planning another move. I was thinking as a matter of precaution,
> > to have the ttl set short. Red Hat purposefully has ttls set anywhere
> > between 10 minutes and 1 hours, and this has proved beneficial.
>
> There's no point to wasting the bandwidth if another move is not planned.
On the other hand, the bandwidth in question is likely negligible, so
there's also no point in bothering about waste. (That is with an 1 hour
TTL. A 1 minute TTL might be another thing.)
It's a rare second level domain that generates significant amounts of DNS
traffic. (First level and root do, of course, but below that is an
incredible fanout.)
MfG Kai