Dave Warren wrote:
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>>Regarding the TTL, Bruce mentioned in his message that we assign TTL
>>an a per record basis and we believe it is sufficient since the
>>record based TTL takes precedence in any case.
>>Let me know if you have further questions.
>>
>>
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>Sure, but this adds undue load on my nameserver, and those of my customers
>for zones which I know will *never* change.
>
>A DNS lookup may only take you a few milliseconds, but when you're running
>on a CDPD modem, 19.2K/s with 2-4 SECOND latency (typical while roaming
>off-network), having to wait an extra 15 seconds for a DNS lookup every 5
>minutes is a pain.
>
>On the other hand, when I'm planning an IP change of some sort which cannot
>have redundancy on two IPs, I usually set my TTL to 60 seconds, that way
>users experience almost no downtime (a maximum of 60 seconds, so in reality,
>an average of 30 seconds or less)
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>
Dave, I believe what you are looking for is called (or at least
could be a part of) Dynamic DNS.
But we do not offer this service yet.
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