Search Again: Re: Sanity check on SOA values From: Global Homes Webmaster Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 Time: 11:07:29 am On 05/24/02 at 10:35, Men & Mice Support wrote: > 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: > >>> > >>>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> If they truly aspire to being IT geeks, they should have a copy of 'DNS & BIND' lying around. Refer them to the 'SOA Values' section in Chapter 4 (p. 89-90 in the 3rd ed.), which has a very clear explanation of the values. -- Christopher Bort | cbort@globalhomes.com Webmaster, Global Homes | webmaster@globalhomes.com <http://www.globalhomes.com/>

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