Re: Dig and SOA record

From: <chris_at_no.spam.please>
Date: Fri Oct 27 2006 - 09:49:07 CST

Use DNS stuff, it has all the details.

http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/lookup.ch?name=google.com&type=SOA

Quoting Steven Kurylo <sk@infinitepigeons.org>:

> I've been searching around trying to find what the all the values mean
> when dig returns an SOA record. Specifically I'm looking for the zone
> refresh time.
>
> $ dig -t soa google.com
> google.com. 86400 IN SOA ns1.google.com.
> dns-admin.google.com. 2006102401 7200 1800 1038800 60
>
> Is 2006102401 the serial number? Is 7200 the refresh time? Is 1800
> the retry time? Making the last two the expire and minimum times?
>
> Thanks for any clarifications.
>
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Received on Fri Oct 27 10:19:46 2006

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