Controversial SOA values ?

[Michael Milligan]

> RIPE has published Recommendations for DNS SOA Values of:
>
> 86400        ; refresh (  24 hours)
> 7200         ; retry   (   2 hours)
> 3600000      ; expire  (1000 hours)
> 172800 )     ; minimum (   2 days)
>
> See:  http://www.ripe.net/docs/ripe-203.html  I note that
> www.berkley.edu in essence uses those same values but that
> many of the people in this forum use substantially differant values.
> Isn't the reasoning in the referenced article sound?

Yes, although the minimum would go in a $TTL directive these days, and you'd
use something smaller for minimum (which is used for negative caching), like
7200 (2hrs).

But to quote, "These recommendations are aimed at small and stable DNS
zones."  Not everybody here is managing small and stable DNS zones, not to
mention folks trying to use DHCP servers and dynamic updates.

Regards,
Mike

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Michael Milligan - Acme Byte & Wire LLC - milli at acmebw.com