TTL script.

Re: TTL script.

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I don't have an exact timeframe. What I've been told is, a few weeks.
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Chris Buxton Men & Mice
cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy!

At 12:54 AM -0700 8/14/01, Aaron Lynch wrote:
>Thanks Chris.
>
>We are somewhat flexible in our time to do this, is there an eta for the
>update?
>
>
>On 8/14/01 12:46 AM, The Defendant "Men & Mice Support"
><cbuxton@menandmice.com> Confessed:
>
> > At 12:30 AM -0700 8/14/01, Aaron Lynch wrote:
> >> Is there a script someplace that will let me set the TTL to something very
> >> low like 300, for every domain?
> >>
> >> (using 3.5)
> >>
> >> We are changing providers soon, I always forget, is it the TTL I want to
> >> reduce, or something else?
> >
> > It's probably going to be the Default TTL that you want to change.
> > Due to a bug in QuickDNS 3.5, there is no scripting access to the
> > default TTL of a zone. This will be addressed in the next update.
> >
> > So, for now, one possible solution is:
> >
> > - Run the Export Server Configuration script.
> > - Use BBEdit (or other text editor with multi-file find & replace) to
> > change the default TTL. Also update the serial number.
> > - Run a script to delete all zones. (I have one if you need it, but see
> > below.)
> > - Run the Import Server Configuration script.
> >
> > Alternatives:
> >
> > - If you're using Bind or QuickDNS Server for Mac OS X as your
> > server, you can work directly on the text-format zone files on the
> > server. In fact, if you're using Mac OS X, you can still use BBEdit
> > to make the necessary changes, without moving the files from their
> > normal location. Either way, remember to tell named to stop and start
> > when you're done. This way, there's no export, delete, and import
> > steps.
> >
> > - If you're using QuickDNS Server for Mac OS 8/9 as your server,
> > replace the third step with, "Remove all files from the Primary Data
> > folder." This is because the script to delete all zones takes quite a
> > while to execute.
> >
> > Other notes:
> >
> > - You may want to work on a duplicate server, and then copy the
> > updated zone files into place on the real server.
> >
> > - The Export and Import scripts don't save load balance records.
> > You'll need to manually recreate them.
> > ____________________________________________________________________
> > Chris Buxton Men & Mice
> > cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy!
> >
>
>-- Aaron Lynch
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