No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead

Vu Pham ( Sivell ) vu at sivell.com
Sun Aug 6 19:34:32 UTC 2000



----- Original Message -----
From: "WCUI" <wec839 at my-deja.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.dns.bind
To: <comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 9:54 AM
Subject: No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead


> Hi,
>
> I just setup a primary DNS server. When I start it, it always give me
> the following error messages in the /var/adm/messages file. In fact, I
> do have a TTL set in the data file. Can anybody help with this? Thanks
> a lot.
>
> ----/var/adm/messages
>
> named[1236]:Zone "0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA" (file db.127.0.0): No default
> TTL set using SOA minimum instead
> named[1236]:Zone "mydomain.org" (file db.mydomain): No default TTL set
> using SOA minimum instead
> named[1237]:Ready to answer queries.
>
>
> -----the datafile
>
> 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.  IN  SOA mydomain.org. hostmaster.mydomain.org. (
>  00080401       ; Serial
>  10800          ; Refresh after 3 hours
>  3600           ; Retry after 1 hour
>  604800         ; Expire after 1 week
>  86400 )        ; Minimum TTL of 1 day
>
> ---------------
>
>
> There is another message saying:
> Aug  4 17:13:18 mydomain root at mydomain:/tmp/src/bin/named
> /tmp/src is the directory where I download and complie the bind, and
> there is no /tmp/src/bin/named anymore. Should I care about this
> message?
>
> Thanks again.
>
>
> --
> W CUI
>
>
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>
>

You must have a declaration of $TTL at the beginning of the master zone
file.
e.g.:
$TTL    3600

See RFC 2308 for more information.

Vu Pham




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