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(SOA) A type of resource record used by the Domain Name System (DNS) to give meta-data about a set of domain name data (the contents of a “zone file”). An SOA record has the following parameters:
Serial: the zone serial number – a version number for the zone file.
Refresh: the number of seconds between update requests from secondary and slave name servers.
Retry: the number of seconds the secondary or slave will wait before retrying when an attempt fails.
Expire: (time to live – TTL) the number of seconds a master or slave will wait before considering cached data out-of-date.
Minimum: previously used to determine the minimum TTL, this offers negative caching.
(2007-05-11)
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