MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agoWhat is a DNS and what does it do?message-squaremessage-square46linkfedilinkarrow-up159arrow-down16
arrow-up153arrow-down1message-squareWhat is a DNS and what does it do?MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agomessage-square46linkfedilink
minus-squaredfyx@lemmy.helios42.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 days agoYes. That’s why DNS has a TTL (time to live) in seconds in every response which specifies how long you should remember it before you ask again. The 256 seconds in my example are the real TTL that I got when asking for lemmy.world.
Yes. That’s why DNS has a TTL (time to live) in seconds in every response which specifies how long you should remember it before you ask again. The 256 seconds in my example are the real TTL that I got when asking for lemmy.world.