Search Again: Re: IP Renumbering Nightmare Coming.... From: Men & Mice Support Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 Time: 3:53:38 pm At 2:55 PM -0700 6/13/03, Global Homes Webmaster wrote: >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. Any particular reason for setting it low? The SOA record doesn't contain any critical data, as far as other servers are concerned. It simply has to exist. And generally the only change made to it is the serial number. So having it cached by other servers for long periods of time shouldn't hurt anything at all. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy

Messages In This Thread: IP Renumbering Nightmare Coming.... by m i l e s on Jun 12, 2003 at 11:52:29 am Re: IP Renumbering Nightmare Coming.... by Men & Mice Support on Jun 12, 2003 at 12:40:42 pm Re: IP Renumbering Nightmare Coming.... by John May on Jun 12, 2003 at 1:02:46 pm Re: IP Renumbering Nightmare Coming.... by John May on Jun 12, 2003 at 3:08:31 pm Re: IP Renumbering Nightmare Coming.... by m i l e s on Jun 12, 2003 at 3:17:35 pm Re: IP Renumbering Nightmare Coming.... by John May on Jun 13, 2003 at 1:15:38 pm Re: IP Renumbering Nightmare Coming.... by m i l e s on Jun 13, 2003 at 1:22:12 pm Re: IP Renumbering Nightmare Coming.... by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Jun 13, 2003 at 1:28:32 pm Re: IP Renumbering Nightmare Coming.... by John May on Jun 13, 2003 at 1:42:11 pm Re: IP Renumbering Nightmare Coming.... by Len Conrad on Jun 13, 2003 at 1:46:38 pm Re: IP Renumbering Nightmare Coming.... by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Jun 13, 2003 at 2:03:11 pm Re: IP Renumbering Nightmare Coming.... by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Jun 13, 2003 at 2:08:31 pm Re: IP Renumbering Nightmare Coming.... by Global Homes Webmaster on Jun 13, 2003 at 2:56:24 pm Re: IP Renumbering Nightmare Coming.... by John May on Jun 14, 2003 at 9:31:19 am Re: IP Renumbering Nightmare Coming.... by Men & Mice Support on Jun 18, 2003 at 3:29:35 pm Re: IP Renumbering Nightmare Coming.... by Men & Mice Support on Jun 18, 2003 at 3:37:13 pm Re: IP Renumbering Nightmare Coming.... by Men & Mice Support on Jun 18, 2003 at 3:44:46 pm Re: IP Renumbering Nightmare Coming.... by Men & Mice Support on Jun 18, 2003 at 3:49:15 pm Re: IP Renumbering Nightmare Coming.... by Men & Mice Support on Jun 18, 2003 at 3:53:38 pm