minimum expire time

Paul A Vixie vixie at mibh.net
Tue Sep 14 23:59:26 UTC 1999


> If it becomes popular to override low TTLs at cacheing sites, this strategy
> won't work, and there will simply be NO way to change IP addresses without
> a prolonged service disruption.  That would be far worse than having
> dialup customers send a few extra packets to sites that incompetently
> set permanent low TTLs.

i know.  but the sites who have this problem will only be the ones who caused
it to themselves.  the patch actually needs to be a little bit improved, since
additional data needs a real ttl since it can go back off-site.


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