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Re: IP Renumbering Nightmare Coming....

From: Global Homes Webmaster
Date: Friday, June 13, 2003
Time: 2:56:24 pm

On 06/13/03 at 16:38, John May opined:

> Actually, I'm still looking for an answer to the following 2 questions:
>
> - Is there any way to force a slave server to refresh to the master
> server? If so, then I don't see the need to change the Refresh,
> Retry and Expire settings on the zone records, which is good because
> it's one less thing to have to write an Applescript for (and I don't
> have one already).

I think that depends on what version of QDNS you're running.

> - "TTL of SOA" - should this be set to a small value as well? Or do
> the TTLs of the individual A records override it? If it needs to be
> set, can you provide an example Applescript to do such?

The TTL of the SOA record is just that, it says how long the SOA record
itself should be cached by other name servers and resolvers. It is not the
default TTL for all records in the zone. So, yes, you should set it to a
small value.

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