can we promote a SLAVE to be a new MASTER ?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9kebvh$rge at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
 <pelln at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu.invalid> wrote:
>
>The AceyMan <tjlever at mediaone.net> wrote:
>
>> Dear group-
>
>> Our master DNS machine died a horrible death (please do not send
>> flowers :-).   In the absence of a good backup (!) we need to build a
>> new master and plan to use files from our working slave to re-create
>> the master.
>
>> I'm pretty certain how to edit the named.conf file to make it work as
>> a master, but I am concerned that all the transferred 'copies' that we
>> have from the slave won't work in a master role.
>
>bind-9 ( and possibly the very latest bind-8) insist in a '$TTL ' at 
>zone-file top, you might have to edit those ..

Does it insist on this even if every record has an explicit TTL?  The
backup zone files written by BIND 8 have TTL's on every line, so a default
TTL shouldn't be needed.

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