1D ?

[Tom Hudson]

At 01:09 PM 7/19/00 +0200, Jan Beers wrote:
>
>Goodday to all.
>
>I am looking into upgrading bind4 to bind8. I did not previously setup the
>bind4 server, so I started with digging in the package.
>
>Now I noticed, that in the bind8 /var/named/127.0.0.zone file, the records are
>given with an "1D IN SOA", "1D IN NS", etc, while, on old files, and in the
>documents that come with the package, this 1D is not mentioned.
>I have searched the download page, the faq, the documents, the mailing list and
>several other links, but have until now not found the function of the 1D.
>
>So, my question is: what is the 1D 's function, and would it be possible to
>document this somewhere as well, for other people perhaps searching this info.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Jan Beers
>Dialogs Software GmbH
>

The 1D is the time period, with bind8 it's possible to specify time-periods in seconds (e.g. 86400) or hours (e.g. 1H), 1D means one day.