From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 18 22:03:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA10656 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 22:03:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA10647 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 22:03:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA26780; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 22:05:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199709190505.WAA26780@implode.root.com> To: Greg Lehey cc: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NAMESERVER Setup Problems In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 19 Sep 1997 13:07:06 +0930." <19970919130706.11719@lemis.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 22:05:04 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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