No default TTL

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Thu Nov 11 18:45:22 UTC 1999


In article <000b8d9b.d50a3d4e at usw-ex0101-001.remarq.com>,
Xela  <apavluckNOapSPAM at trusted.net.invalid> wrote:
>Hello,
>  I get this message when I start my name server.
>No default TTL using SOA instead.  Is there a way to set a global TTL
>rather than setting in each db file?

No, there's no global default TTL.  You have to set it in each file.  This
has been true for as long as BIND has existed.  The only difference in 8.2
is how you set it; in prior releases it used the SOA Minimum_TTL field as
the default, not you use a $TTL directive.

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