dns TTL, what is it set to?

[prophecy]

Just wondering what DA is setting the TTL to?

[DirectAdmin Support]

TTL in the db files are set to 0, with the time for each entry set to 14400. This can be changed by copying:
/usr/local/directadmin/data/templates/named.db
into the custom directory (...templates/custom/named.db), then make any changes you need. Any files in the cutom direcotry will take priority over the ones in the templates directory.

John

[prophecy]

Which is 4 hours right?

That seems reasonable. That a common time or how did you decide upon that?

[DirectAdmin Sales]

We chose 14400 because it seems to be a common time (e.g. do a Google search).

Mark

[prophecy]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the reply, but I have another question, why do you put the time beside each entry. I have never seen that before and just did some searching around and can't see any other references to id, so I'm wonder why you are doing it?

[DirectAdmin Support]

That just the way I've always done it. With that method you can set different values for each entry, so you can do stuff like making nameservers keep a closer eye on its value (if you lower it) before you are going to do a domain transfer, or things like that. It's not really required, but gives a little bit more flexibiliy.

John

[prophecy]

But you can't really change them on a one on one basis anyways can you? Is that a well supported feature of dns?

[DirectAdmin Support]

why else would they have that feature? :)