newbie question

[Barry Margolin]

In article <3947E51C3F.6768MASAKI at smtp.itochu.net>,
Masaki Nishikawa  <masaki at itochu.net> wrote:
>I'm setting up a zone file for IP-reverse lookup.
>
>A db file looks like this.
>(The actual IP address and the domain name are masked by "xxx").
>
>> $ORIGIN xx.xxx.in-addr.arpa.
>> xxx             IN      SOA     ns-j01.xxx.net. root.xxx.net. (
>>                 1 10800 3600 604800 86400 )
>>                 IN      NS      ns-j01.xxx.net.
>>                 IN      NS      ns-j02.xxx.net.
>
>But when I start named daemon, I get the following message on all the db
>files I created.
>
>> Jun 14 16:29:43 ns-j01.xxx.net named[17896]: Zone
>"xxx.xx.xxx.in-addr.arpa" (file
>> db.xxx.xx.xxx): No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead
>
>What does it mean by "No default TTL set"????
>In the above db file, the TTL is 86400, right???

No.  Prior to BIND 8.2, the last value in the SOA record was the default
TTL, but now it's the negative cache TTL.  The default TTL is configured
using a $TTL directive, e.g.

$TTL 86400

This gets asked several times a week, please learn to search for answers
yourself before posting.  It's also explained on the Configuration File
Hints page in the documentation at www.isc.org.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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