TTL Question

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Thu Jan 4 16:32:53 UTC 2001


_DNS_and_BIND_, 3rd Edition, predates BIND 8.2, which adopted the new
RFC 2308 regime. The last field of the SOA record is *no*longer* the "default
TTL". So you have to have some other way of telling named what the default
TTL is.


- Kevin

Jeffrey C. Albro wrote:

> Hmmmm, I look at the docs, and I understand what I'm being told to do, but
> I don't understand why.  I thought all the records got their ttl from the
> SOA?
>
> For instance, my SOA of:
>
> @        IN     SOA     ns1.canbox.com.         postmaster.canbox.com. (
>                                 2001010201      ;serial
>                                 10800   ; refresh after 3 hours
>                                 3600    ; retry after 1 hour
>                                 604800  ; expire after 1 weeks
>                                 86400)  ; min ttl of 1 day
>
> Also gives this error, but it looks just like it does in the DNS and BIND
> book.
>
> Can I buy a clue? : )
>
> -Jeff
>
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Daniel Roesen wrote:
>
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:42:00PM +0100, Marco Kammerer wrote:
> > > Can I get the messages No deault TTL .... to disappear? (see below)
> >
> > Why didn't you just took a quick look into the docs? *groan*
> >
> > http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/docs/config_hints.html
> >
> >
> > Daniel
> >
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