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Joachim Breitner
Asked: 2012-11-17 10:42:06 +0800 CST

Overwrite SOA expiry in a bind9 slave name server

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I run a slave name server of a domain that I do not have full control over (i.e. changing the SOA is not possibly). The SOA specifies an expiry time of one week. For various reasons, I’d like to override that value on my specific slave server to something larger. Is there a way to do that?

N.B: I know that for the refresh and retry fields, bind9 provides the options min-refresh-time, max-refresh-time, min-retry-time and max-retry-time to overrule the SOA, as mentioned in the documentation. For some reason this just does not include expiry.

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2 Answers

  1. After reading the code, I found a solution that seems to work. bind stores the time of what he think he last refreshed the zone as the modification time of the zone file. So

    $ touch /var/cache/bind/domain.tld.db
$ rndc reload

    will make it think it has just refreshed the domain. This trick works even in hindsight, i.e. after the link to the master servers are lost and the domain has already expired and the slave server has stopped to answer requests.

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  2. Best Answer

    I don't think you can override expiration time. However, if one week out-of sync is ok, maybe set it up as master, and sync it periodically with dig -t AXFR>db.zone and rndc reload.

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