Re: Dig and SOA record

From: Gerald J T Harrison <harrison_at_no.spam.please>
Date: Fri Oct 27 2006 - 10:24:39 CST

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Steven Kurylo wrote:

> 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 < date of record set
7200 < refresh in sec
1800 < retry
1038800 < expire
60 < default ttl (time to live)

be careful of serial number/ set date...
>
> 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.
>
>
Received on Fri Oct 27 10:25:30 2006

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