[OpenAFS] afsdb refresh interval

Nickolai Zeldovich kolya@MIT.EDU
Sat, 3 Apr 2004 16:32:17 -0500 (EST)


Mitch Collinsworth <mitch@ccmr.cornell.edu> writes:

> What _should_ happen is the same as what happens for any other
> DNS record.  Anybody who caches it should do so only until the
> assigned TTL runs out.  What _does_ happen depends on how it's
> coded.  Hopefully it's not as bad as some of the web browsers
> we've run into that won't notice a change without being restarted
> first.

Sorry, I didn't see the original query asking about AFSDB refresh
intervals..  As far as I can remember, I did implement timeouts in the
AFSDB code, so it should re-check the AFSDB records when the TTL expires.

-- kolya