[Sinner]

Quote:

Originally Posted by linuxthefish You are incorrect, it's basically the amount of time DNS queries are cached for in seconds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_to_live#DNS_records

Oops, my bad. I didn't know it was also used for DNS records! TTL for IP packets does mean the following though:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wikipedia The TTL field is set by the sender of the datagram, and reduced by every router on the route to its destination.