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I wish to set the TTL of my DNS record to something pretty low, like say 5 minutes (or 300 seconds) I wish to do this so that in 24 hours when this change has propagated, I will be able to issue further changes and have them respected within the 5 minute window.
The overall reason for this is because I am about to move a website from one box to another (different IP). Upon completing this move, I hope to shut down the origin al box and for everything to be work perfectly.
However I am a realist and want to prepare for the eventuality that something will go wrong. In a case such as this I would like to be able to switch back to the original site and to have that switch occur within a very small window (ie the 5 minutes)
If all should go well then I hope to change the TTL value back to ~24hours.
So to requote the question: "How low can I set the TTL of a DNS record and expect it to be honoured?"
I think this is going to be highly implementation-specific, and any answers will be opinions unless representatives of ISPs and other companies that run major DNS servers actually come forward with exact answers. – Darth Android – 2013-10-11T19:10:42.257