Search Again: Re: Standard Times From: Men & Mice Support Date: Monday, October 1, 2001 Time: 12:15:39 pm There are several different RFC's that give suggested values, and they're all different. Here are some good values: Refresh: 28800 (8 hours) to 86400 (1 day) Retry: 1800 (30 minutes) to 7200 (2 hours) Expire: 2419200 (4 weeks) Minimum, Default TTL, Negative Caching, and/or TTL: 86400 (1 day) There's no real reason to change from the default values for any of this, except: - If you have lots of slave zones on a server, to the point where QuickDNS has trouble doing a refresh check on all of them when it first starts up, you may want to set the retry value to a low number (on the master server); setting it as low as 300 (5 minutes) should have vanishingly little impact on server performance while giving the slave server plenty of time to retry everything. - If your setup is fairly stable, you may want to increase the Expire time to something longer than the default 1 week, in case your master server goes down for an extended period of time while you're not around to fix things. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy At 11:22 AM -0700 10/1/01, Chris Parker wrote: >What are the generally accepted "standard" values for Retry, >refresh, TTL, etc for domains that are projected to be unchanged for >the foreseeable future? > >Chris Parker >Pacific Business Systems / ClubMac

Messages In This Thread: Standard Times by Chris Parker on Oct 1, 2001 at 11:23:45 am Re: Standard Times by Men & Mice Support on Oct 1, 2001 at 12:15:39 pm