Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 22:05:04 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NAMESERVER Setup Problems Message-ID: <199709190505.WAA26780@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Sep 1997 13:07:06 %2B0930." <19970919130706.11719@lemis.com>
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>On Thu, Sep 18, 1997 at 08:07:28PM -0700, Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote: >> >> >>> OK, let's take this apart: >>>> >>>> @ IN SOA acroal.com. root.acroal.com. >>>> ( 1997091200 ; serial >>>> 10800 ; refresh >>>> 900 ; retry >>>> 604800 ; expire >>>> 43200 ) ; minimum >> >> >> Thats interesting, the SOA for who.cdrom.com uses these same times. > >So it does. It doesn't make it right. Wrong. Not only is the refresh number not too short, but in fact it should probably be even shorter - 3 hours is a rather long time between serial number checks. Paul Vixie recently suggested that this should be on the order of 30 minutes or less. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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