On Saturday, August 21, 2004, 16:58:18, Len Conrad wrote: >>Being a pessimist I usually plan for a worst case scenario of refresh >>interval *plus* TTL even though my current providers secondaries do pay >>attention to NOTIFYs. > > The NOTIFY RFC goes back several years and has been the predominant mode of > zone refresh for as long, in all the major DNS implementations, such that > SOA "refresh interval" has been marginalized for years. DNS is much more > lively and current than your pessimismistic view.
I'm fully aware that NOTIFY is alive & kicking. Its just that when its in my control I'd rather plan for the worst case and be pleasantly surprised rather than assuming the rest of the world works as it should and getting grumpy when it doesn't. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The avalanche has already started, it is too Rod Dorman late for the pebbles to vote." � Ambassador Kosh To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
