Urgent : # TTL in SOA and IN A records

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Fri Jun 18 18:50:24 UTC 1999


In article <7kdmjk$j9m$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <ftta at my-deja.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I read in DNS and BIND that it's possible to have a TTL value in the
>SOA record, and another TTL on a IN A record. It also explains that if
>the TTL record value in the SOA is higher than this one in the IN A
>record, this last value is chosen by the DNS.
>
>So, in my configuration the TTL value in the SOA is 48 hours and in the
>IN A record is 3600 seconds. When I restart named, the TTL value for
>this IN A record is 48 hours !!!!

Please post your zone file, we can't tell what's wrong from just your
description.

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