Re: [TCLUG:9379] Slave DNS servers and TTL

[Christopher McKinley <lamfada@lugh.net>]

Tell them to set the TTL for their master zone to be, say a month, for
the day before they go offline.  You will pick that TTL up, and not try
to load that domain for a month.

A better way to do it is to get the master files from them and make them
email / call you to becom the slave again.  That way even if they go
down for over a month, it won't matter.

-Chris

Bob Tanner wrote:
> 
> I am a slave server for a domain who's primary may be down for weeks(!). The
> TTL in the zone is 1 day, how can I over-ride the "default" TTL and stick
> something in there like 14 days or maybe even never?
> 
> The goal here is to keep answering for the domain even if it takes weeks for
> the primary server to come back up.
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