-- Slave Dns Solution --

[nobaloney]

I always thought expiry was the total length of time it lives for in an outage and ttl is only when it checks for updates

You're right.

Jeff

 

[Maverick]

That depends entirely on what you mean by crazy. One of my associates is happily serving DNS for 3,000 domains on a Cobalt RaQ 1. That was not a powerful machine.

Jeff

I'm talking about load on root servers and general internet traffic. I don't want to get hung up on this subject.

I don't come here for red herring or to show off how much I know or whatever.

and I certainly don't have time for tit for tat responses.

I come here as a paying Direct Admin customer for solutions and perhaps offer little I know to help others so chill out.

 

[nobaloney]

It's been my intent in this thread only to correct obvious errors which could lead to a misunderstanding of how DNS operates.

I'll close the thread after pointing out that your TTL can't affect the root servers at all, because they refer to the "glue" a records stored at the gtld servers, and those records always have a time to live of 48 hours.

Jeff