Can I find out whether my DNS provider honor my TTL settting?

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Is there any way to determine if my DNS provider actually use the TTL setting I provide?

Do you mean "I have put a set of RRs into my DNS providers website, including TTLs, how can I confirm that the provider is exporting those TTLs to the world unchanged"?
Then dig is your friend, as Tutul has already said. You should substitute your domain for gmail.com, and your nameservers in turn for ns1.google.com.

Tutul · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-22 23:10:15Z

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$dig @ns1.google.com +nocmd gmail.com A +noall +answer

gmail.com.      300 IN  A   74.125.235.53
gmail.com.      300 IN  A   74.125.235.54

the second column here is the TTL value (300)

answered Apr 22 '12 at 23:10

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steenhulthin · Answer 2 · 2012-04-23 07:05:49Z

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The website http://www.mxtoolbox.com/ can tell you that information.

answered Apr 23 '12 at 7:05

steenhulthin
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