Re: [cobalt-users] Newbie Questions -- help!

[Paul Schreiber <cheesefactory@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 02:01 PM 3/14/00 -0800, you wrote:
> 
> >Yes, you definitely need two servers. I use my raq as
> >my primary and freebies like www.granitecanyon.com and
> >www.ultradns.net as my secondary.
> >
> >The more secondaries, the better. Redundancy is
> >*good*.
> >
> >Now in my case, since the raq is my primary dns as
> >well as my web server, if the primary isn't working,
> >my server likely isn't serving web pages either. :-)
> 
> Yes, but if your DNS is still working, people trying to email to you
> have their mail held until you're back up (usually for four or five
> days). 

The :-) meant my situation is not ideal.

How long do secondary DNS servers hold the info. i.e. say my primary DNS
dies all of a sudden, but httpd is still running. if someone tries to find
my site, can they?

> And people who try to find your website get told your connection is
> temporarily down.

Well, they get a browser error, anyway. :-)

> What's refresh?  And where do you set it?
> 
> My guess is you mean TTL.  Which you can set on the RaQ3, but not on the
> RaQ2 (not using the gui, anyway).  

So when's cobalt gonna release raq3 sw for the raq2?

Yeah, I mean TTL. Sorry. Refresh does something else, but I'm no sure what
it is.

bash-2.03$ nslookup -type=soa nobaloney.net
nobaloney.net
        refresh = 43200 (12H)
        retry   = 7200 (2H)
        expire  = 1209600 (2W)
        minimum ttl = 43200 (12H)

My friend has a dynamic IP and uses yi.org for dynamic DNS. They have his
TTL set to 2 minutes. :-)

> And it really doesn't matter; so many 
> major nameservers have been patched to ignore it <frown>.

What do they do instead?

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