BIND 9 and TTLs
Joseph S D Yao
jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Wed Sep 20 23:43:39 UTC 2000
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 09:55:13PM +0000, The infamous Brian" wrote:
...
> Why now require yet another TTL directive when one exists in the SOA? Is it
There is none in the SOA. That has become the negative-caching TTL.
TTLs are kept with each RR. The "default" is now in the $TTL ...
statement.
> not true that only one TTL directive is true for the zone? Is it not true
No, it is per resource record.
> that the individual records are not subject to updates, that the whole zone
> is updated?
No. Individual records' TTL can be changed.
If you mean something different, there is also such a thing as an
incremental zone transfer - pass only the records that have changed.
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Joe Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
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