Default TTL changed to 3600??? Why?

Richard G

Richard G

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As far as I know, the default TTL for Directadmin always has been 14400.

Is this changed to 3600? Because I see 3600 if I want to put in a new A or TXT record or something. But if I select "use default" and click save, all my existing records are changed to 3600.

Why and since when has this changed? Or was this changed by DA by accident?
 
Richard G said:
Ah I missed that one, thank you!
Any clue on why this was done? It can't harm I guess.
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42000 can't harm as well :) The thing is - lots of inexperience people do migrations or change the records, and they don't understand why they aren't in effect. Waiting 1h is better than 4h when they're in trouble, we didn't lower it down further, because we don't want named outages to cause problems as well. 1h seemed like a best decision for both sides. Even experienced people.. when they want to migrate, they need to wait 4h before they can do it. Now they'd need to wait just an hour, and could still do the migration in their own office-hours. Is there any reason why you think 4h (or even more) is better?
 
Thank you for the explanation smtalk!

No I don't think 4h is better, I was only wondering about it.

Reason was that the default was set to 14400 at least since DA 1.53.0.

Version 1.53.0 | Directadmin Docs

DirectAdmin Knowledge Base
www.directadmin.com

Also there was an option present later on, to lower to another TTL for example 3600 when migrating or something.
Since it was 14400 by default so long, I thought this was for a reason, maybe some RFC requirement for certain records or something like that. So that's why I wondered if there was a specific reason for the change.
 
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