determine the right SOA values in ddns

[Hannah O Day]

I agree with you, but there are poorly written apps that depend on hostname
resolution for authentication.  I don't have control over that.  I only
make sure I provide the service so that they can do what they need to do:
-).


Hannah Day
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Hannah O Day <hoyoung at us.ibm.com> wrote:



> All,

> I need some help on determining the SOA values and $ttl value.  My dhcp
> lease time is 10 hours.  I need to make sure the zone transfer is
frequent
> enough that users will not notice any delays (especially those
applications
> that depending on the hostname for authentication).  All my users are

DONT EVER use hostnames for authentification.   !!!!!


If that is what you are using ddns for i suggest you go back to the drawing
board and figure out another solution.

Peter h
> pointing to the slaves for queries.  What values would be  fast enough
but
> won't be over kill ?  (ttl, refresh, retry, expire, and neg cache?)  I'm
> running Bind8.2.3.

> Thanks!

> Hannah Day






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