TTL errors

[Kevin Darcy]

The last field of the SOA *isn't* the default TTL any more. See RFC 2308
for details.

If you want to get rid of the warning message, put a $TTL directive at the
top of your master file. See the documentation for its syntax. Or just
ignore it; in the absence of a $TTL directive, named will fall back to the
old behavior, i.e. use the last field of the SOA as the default TTL.


- Kevin

Bruce Zarobell wrote:

> Hello,
> I use logwatch v1.8 to monitor my log files on my DNS server. It has
> been reporting the following error for every zone file on my server.
>
> "Zone "bereaved.com" (file b/db.bereaved.com): No default TTL set using
> SOA minimum instead: 1 Time(s) "
> following is the actual zone file.
>
> bereaved.com.           IN      SOA     linux.netincom.com.
> hostmaster.netincom.com. (
>                         2000021000 ; serial
>                         10800 ; refresh
>                         3600 ; retry
>                         604800 ; expire
>                         86400 ; default_ttl
>                         )
> bereaved.com.           IN      NS      linux.netincom.com.
> bereaved.com.           IN      NS      ns2.netincom.com.
> bereaved.com.           IN      MX      10      ns2.netincom.com.
> bereaved.com.           IN      MX      0       linux.netincom.com.
> ;hosts
> www             IN      A       198.88.128.20
>
> As you can see I have listed a TTL. This is driving me crazy, what
> syntax error am I missing?
> TIA,
> Bruce