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Time To Live is a mechanism to prevent messages from traversing the network indefinitely

Every IP packet has a Time To Live, it is a counter that gets deducted when it passes a router. It prevents a packet from traversing the network endlessly. If the packets TTL reaches 0 it gets discarded. TTL can be a timestamp or a counter.

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How can I see Time-To-Live (TTL) for a DNS record?

I would like to see the Time-To-Live (TTL) value for a CNAME record. I have access to dig (on Apple Mac OS X), which gives me an answer like this: % dig host.example.gov <*SNIP*> ;; ANSWER SECTION: host.example.gov. 43200 IN CNAME …
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What does "TTL expired in transit" mean on a ping attempt?

We get the message “TTL expired in transit” when we try to ping to a server in a different network segment. When we run tracert, 4 ip addresses repeat themselves indefinitely: 14 60 ms 59 ms 60 ms xxx.xxx.xxx.2 15 83 ms 81 ms 82…
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Recommended DNS SOA record TTL default?

We currently have our DNS SOA record set to the following for stackoverflow.com: primary name server = ns1.p19.dynect.net serial = 2009090909 refresh = 3600 (1 hour) retry = 600 (10 mins) expire = 604800 (7 days) default…
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I changed my TTL from 24 hours to 5 minutes. Do I need to wait 24 hours before changing the records?

I am migrating our app from a cloud server at Rackspace t a dedicated server. I want to bring the application down for ~5 minutes to copy the data from the cloud server to the dedicated server, so I don't want requests going to the old server after…
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Any disadvantage to short DNS TTL?

Any disadvantage to short DNS TTL?
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What percentage of nameservers honor TTL these days?

Some years ago I had to do several DNS changes over the course of several weeks as I moved bits of equipment from one data center to the other. At the time that I did this, about 95% of the nameservers in the world seemed to respect the TTL value,…
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What does the TTL on a CNAME record mean?

Due to how many servers are involved in my network, I have a hard time keeping them all organized. Some of them don't have static IP's, so I thought it might be nice if I made a config.mydomain.com domain. On this domain, I could store A records and…
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Recommended DNS TTL

I know it could be very different based on the situation, but for hosting a website with no plans to move the hosting server what is a good TTL to set on the DNS record?
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Varnish Cache - default TTL?

I have discovered that I can set the TTL in Varnish as follows in my VCL file: sub vcl_fetch { # 1 minute set obj.ttl = 1m; } But what is the default setting (assuming the backend server is setting no cache-control header) ?
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Can Windows 2008 R2 DNS set TTL per record?

The DNS Manager administrative tool doesn't seem to have an option for configuring TTL for an individual record. I can set the TTL per-zone by right-clicking -> Properties -> SOA. Where is the equivalent for each record?
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CNAME and A record have different TTLs. Which one will be cached?

If a CNAME has a TTL of 1 hour that points to an A record with a TTL of 1 minute, will someone who looks up this CNAME have the entire result cached for 1 hour, or will it will keep having to lookup the A record every 1 minute?
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What are the benefits of a high TTL for DNS?

I'm moving a domain's nameservers from the registrar to dnsmadeasy.com so that we can have automatic failover (among other benefits). When I've done this in the past I simply set the TTL value as low as it can go (1 minute) for the A record so that…
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What happens when your TTL gets screwed up in your DNS record?

What happens when someone gets access to your DNS control and sets a TTL of 100 years on your domain, while pointing it's IP to some obscure website? (and you discover it too late of course)
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Weighted round robins via TTL - possible?

I currently use DNS round robin for load balancing, which works great. The records look like this (I have a TTL of 120 seconds) ;; ANSWER SECTION: orion.2x.to. 116 IN A 80.237.201.41 orion.2x.to. 116 IN A …
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Cisco DNS doctoring or Hairpinning?

I've the following configuration: CISCO 881, IOS 15.2(4)M6. On WAN interface is configured the 86.34.156.48/29 subnet from our ISP. Behind the router is staying 2 webserver. NAT: 86.34.156.51 <> 10.10.10.100 (private IP, server1). If I configure…
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