Recommended SOA Settings

[Mark Watts]

> On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 10:58:42AM +0000, Mark Watts wrote:
> > I'm currently going through our zone files, trying to standardise the
> > gloop accumulated  over the years.
> >
> > Is there a "recommended" set of values for the SOA numbers
> > (refresh/retry/expire/ttl etc) ?
>
> Several.
>
> RFC 1912 [!!]
> RFC 2181, in passing
> RFC 2308, completely changing the meaning of one field!
> 	www.faqs.org/rfc/rfcXXXX.txt
>
> RIPE document ripe-203: Recommendations for DNS SOA Values
> 	http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/dns-soa.html

These are some great resources - I've bookmarked them all :)

Thanks,

Mark.

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Mark Watts
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QinetiQ Trusted Information Management
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