Time out for a terminology check--"resolver" vs "server".
Mark Andrews
marka at isc.org
Mon Feb 15 03:46:27 UTC 2010
In message <6eb799ab1002141824s652c4f31od02cb750912a064b at mail.gmail.com>, James
Hess writes:
>
> Also, BIND implements the EXPIRE value in the SOA.
> But other DNS server software applications widely ignore this value,
> and the zone stays authoritative on all servers, no matter how much
> time elapses between updates (in that case).
And if there are loops in the zone transfer graph slaves can stay
alive even if they are checking the serial of the master to see if
they need to expire the zone.
Mark
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