Search Again: Re: Sanity check on SOA values From: Men & Mice Support Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 Time: 10:37:26 am At 6:19 PM -0400 5/23/02, David M. Dantowitz wrote: >Men & Mice Support at cbuxton@menandmice.com said this on 5/23/02 5:40 PM > >>At 1:42 PM -0400 5/23/02, David M. Dantowitz wrote: >>>Watching a domain run by an IT department with the following SOA values: >>> >>>refresh 3 hours >>>retry 1 hour >>>expire 1 hour >>>minimum 1 day >>> >>>Now, to me it seems that the secondary will keep it's data for 1 hour, >>>then it expires and it won't retry to load the domain for another 2 >>>hours. >>> >>>Is this the proper interpretation of the numbers above? >> >>Yes. The expire timeout listed above is insane. > >Okay, what's the best way to educate an IT group in a perfectly polite >manner (don't want to threaten them). Gotta a good FAQ page I can >forward to them... don't want to seem like a know it all. I'm afraid I can't help much here. I don't have a FAQ page about this, just the QuickDNS user manual. For example: <http://www.menandmice.com/online_docs_and_faq/glossary/expire.field.htm> ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy

Messages In This Thread: Sanity check on SOA values by David M. Dantowitz on May 23, 2002 at 10:43:25 am Re: Sanity check on SOA values by Men & Mice Support on May 23, 2002 at 2:47:36 pm Re: Sanity check on SOA values by David M. Dantowitz on May 23, 2002 at 3:22:25 pm Re: Sanity check on SOA values by Men & Mice Support on May 24, 2002 at 10:37:26 am Re: Sanity check on SOA values by Global Homes Webmaster on May 24, 2002 at 11:07:29 am Re: Sanity check on SOA values by Len Conrad on May 24, 2002 at 11:22:37 am Re: Sanity check on SOA values by David M. Dantowitz on May 27, 2002 at 7:03:37 pm