Effects of Very Short TTLs

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Mon Nov 8 22:47:51 UTC 1999


In article <38274705.7A5A6913 at lucent.com>,
Royans Tharakan  <tharakan at lucent.com> wrote:
>yea... thats true.
>another small yet problem which might come up is that, if primary
>goes down for more 5 minutes,then slave server might give an
>"non-athoritative"
>reply, which is not something one is comfortable with.

No it wouldn't.  Slave servers continue to give authoritative responses
until the Expire time is reached.  The TTL has no effect on master or slave
servers.

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