Search Again: Re: "reasonable" numbers for QDNS? From: Men & Mice Support Date: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 Time: 5:37:19 am At 7:49 AM -0400 5/16/00, Joseph D'Andrea wrote: >For a relatively stable domain name configuration what would be some >reasonable numbers for refresh, retry, Expire, Minimum and TTL. The defaults are good... Refresh: 28800. The secondary server will check for a new version every 8 hours. Retry: 7200. The secondary will retry every 2 hours if the primary doesn't answer for the refresh check. Expire: 604800. The secondary will stop serving the domain if it can't contact the primary server for an update for a whole week. Minimum: 86400. Other servers will cache most of your records (those without explicit TTL's) for up to 1 day. TTL: <blank>. The default TTL is perfectly adequate for the SOA record; it doesn't need an explicit TTL of its own. The only values you might want to consider changing are Expire and Minimum. Don't set the Minimum value to more than 2 days, though - when you do have to make changes, you want them to actually take place in a reasonable amount of time. Expire can be set very high if you control all the servers involved in serving the domain; 30 days is not out of line. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

Messages In This Thread: "reasonable" numbers for QDNS? by Joseph D''Andrea on May 16, 2000 at 4:54:26 am Re: "reasonable" numbers for QDNS? by Men & Mice Support on May 16, 2000 at 5:37:19 am