Expiration TTLs

[Chris Buxton]

On Dec 1, 2012, at 12:17 PM, Paul Romano wrote:

> What is a good compromise on zone expiration TTLs?  Our DNS is authoritative for AD DNS and we want to make sure we force records to refresh but do not want to expose ourselves to the risk of zone failures.

The zone expiration timer is not a TTL timer. The two are different.

Zone expiration should usually be at least a week. I've set mine to 6 weeks. This timer has nothing to do with the refresh interval, which is also defined in the SOA record.

Chris Buxton
BlueCat Networks