refresh / expire
Mark Damrose
mdamrose at elgin.cc.il.us
Mon Apr 8 21:57:35 UTC 2002
"bert hubert" <ahu at ds9a.nl> wrote in message
news:a8t361$pmu at pub3.rc.vix.com...
> In article <a8siu7$ot4 at pub3.rc.vix.com>, those who know me have no need of
> my name wrote:
>
> I was wondering, is there any valid reason for 'expire'? I've been bitten
a
> few times by secondaries dropping a zone during prolonged outages. I'm not
> sure why I would ever want that to happen.
Expire is the amount of time you consider that the data is so old it is no
longer useful. I set mine to 6 weeks. I figure that's plenty of time to
get an outage corrected or else set up somewhere else if it's a major
disaster.
>
> Just wondering.
>
> Regards,
>
> bert
>
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