Re: [cobalt-users] DNS Cacheing

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on 3/15/00 1:22 PM, Tom DeSot at tomd@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I've got a Qube running primary DNS and was wondering.
> 
> How long does it hold the cache of DNS queries to the ISP?  It doesn't seem
> to hold them that long and I want to tweak them.

I depends on the TTL (time to live) you set in the SOA record on your zone
file.  I beleive the Raq's default to 604800 seconds (7 days) for the cached
record to be non-authoratative and 10800 seconds (3 hours) before a cache
should be reloaded.

-k