SOA EXPIRE and dnsdoctor

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Fri Apr 18 16:14:37 UTC 2008


On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:43:46AM -0400,
 rick pim <rick at post.queensu.ca> wrote 
 a message of 32 lines which said:

> rfc 1912 recommends 2-4 weeks for the SOA EXPIRE, but why is 7 weeks
> considered a "fatal error"?

You can change it in the configuration file:

<check name="soa_expire"          severity="f" category="dns:soa"/>

You can replace the "f" (fatal) by a "w" (warning).

Or you can change the maximum value:

    <const name="soa:expire:max"  value="60480000"/>



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