No default TTL set

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

	WARNING: you are running BIND 8.2.1 you should upgrade immediately
	See http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security-19991108.html
	for why.  I would also suggest that you get yourself onto
	bind-announce http://www.isc.org/services/public/lists/bind-lists.html
	as well as a general security list.

	Do you have *any* records *anywhere* in the zone file without
	a explicit TTL?   Note this is a *warning* not an error.

	See:
	RFC 2308
	http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/docs/config_hints.html

	Mark

> BIND v8.2.1
> 
> Everything was working fine until a couple weeks ago (from the log files
> that I can tell).
> 
> I am receiving errors when starting named.
> 
> Every single zone file gives out this error;
> 
> Jul 27 06:11:27 dns1 named[11667]: Zone "mobler-nomoto.co.jp" (file
> jp.co.mobler-nomoto): No default TTL set us
> ing SOA minimum instead
> Jul 27 06:11:27 dns1 named[11667]: master zone "mobler-nomoto.co.jp" (IN)
> loaded (serial 1999120801)
> 
> The zone file (and every one of them) contains the TTL;
> 
> @       604800  IN SOA  dns1.hip.ad.jp. hostmaster.dns1.hip.ad.jp. (
>                               1999120801        ; serial
>                               86400     ; refresh every one day
>                               3600      ; retry every hour
>                               2592000   ; expire in 30 days
>                               86400 )   ; default TTL of 1 day
> 
> This is extremely bizzarre.  I have never seen this error before and have no
> idea where to set the default TTL????  This server was not giving out this
> error when I originally set it up about a month and a half ago.  Some other
> people have been messing with the DNS server, which is why I didn't catch
> this for a couple weeks.  Could this error come up from other problems?
> Errors in other zone files or the named.conf file?
> 
> I would appreciate any insight and pointers on where to look for
> configuration or zone file errors and how to set a default TTL.  My O'Reilly
> DNS and BIND book makes no mention of a default TTL and someone on IRC gave
> me a vauge "it's not an error" answer (ok yeah like I thought I'd get a
> valid answer from IRC).
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Geoff
> geoff at sycomm.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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