Slave Refresh Rates

[Nate Campi]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 06:18:49PM +0000, Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <a1kihf$jqc at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
> Chimento, Douglas <Douglas.Chimento at FMR.COM> wrote:
> > However, from my understanding , the slave server will check x minutes  to
> >see if the data is up to date. Where x = SOA refresh time  
> >I want the slave to ignore the refresh. Is there a way to do that ?
> 
> No.  I suppose you could make the refresh time *really* long, so it will
> hardly ever be used.  But why would you want to do this?  What's the
> problem with checking periodically (is your slave server behind a dialup
> modem, and you don't want it to trigger a connection)?

I rely on NOTIFY to speed up my updates, but I sleep better at night
knowing that I keep nice short REFRESH values in my SOA records.

What could be better than having a backup like that? That is, unless you
don't want to bring up some kind of dial-on-demand connection like Barry
said.
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