George Borisov wrote: > Hello, > > I have just finished configuring a new bind9 server on our network. :-) > > As a test I generated a report at www.dnsreport.com and it gave me the > following error message: > > --- > WARNING: Your SOA RETRY interval is : 86400 seconds. This seems very > high. You should consider decreasing this value to about 120-7200 > seconds. The retry value is the amount of time your secondary/slave > nameservers will wait to contact the master nameserver again if the last > attempt failed. > --- > > The 86400 value is supplied in the Debian default configuration and also > (for example) suggested here: > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/network-administrator/ch-bind.html > > Is Debian wrong in recommending this as a default? > > Should I worry about this and change the value? (The reason I am > reluctant to do this is because there are nearly 50 domains defined on > that server, which means I would have to remember some sed to write a > script to change all of these values :-p )
I don't think the Debian package is wrong. It is really a matter of preference. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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