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TTL Time To Live

Networking På svenska → Updated: 2026-05-23

How long a record should be cached before being fetched fresh — most commonly in DNS.

Set DNS TTL to 60s before a move, 1h afterwards. CDN, Redis, browser cache — all use TTL. In IP packets: how many hops the packet may take before being dropped.

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