WARNING SOA expire value is less than 7 days

[Tim Maestas]

First, you are using a woefully old version of BIND that has quite a few 
known security holes.  Upgrade immediately.

To answer your question, it means exactly what it says.  The expire value 
in your SOA record is less than 7 days.  This means if you had a zone on a 
slave server that lost connectivity to it's master, the zone would expire 
in whatever you have set for the expire value.  General convention is to 
set the expire value to a week or greater.

-Tim



On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, mahidhar Kada wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> I have seen the following message in /var/adm/messages. I am using BIND 8.1.2. What does this mean and what should I do?
> WARNING SOA expire value is less than 7 days 
> 
> Please help me in this.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mahidhar.
> 
> 
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