Global refresh ? (need to change all ip's)

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Thu Feb 10 15:43:40 UTC 2000


In article <Pine.LNX.4.21.0002100930490.29520-100000 at ddx.a2000.nu>,
 <bind-list at ddx.a2000.nu> wrote:
>Whe are about to move all ip's to a new ip-range.
>is it possible to global define the refresh/retry/expire/minumum ?
>so i don't need to edit all files (and after the moving, to set them back
>to normal times)
>
>some other tips/tricks for moving to a new ip-range ? (including
>nameserver)

You shouldn't need to change the retry or expire times, only the refresh
and ttl fields.

I don't know of a way to set a global override.  It should be pretty easy
to write an awk or perl script to update the SOA records in all your files.

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