TTL for zones
Treptow, Craig
Treptow.Craig at principal.com
Thu May 17 18:32:43 UTC 2001
You need for example: $TTL 3600 at the top
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Jeffery [mailto:drnj at btconnect.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 12:02 PM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
> Subject: TTL for zones
>
>
> On an internal network (i.e. not internet access) I run BIND
> 8.2.3 and a
> named.conf which has (named.conf not reproduced here):
>
> slave '.'
>
> master 127.0.0
>
> slave all other zones
>
>
>
> When I start named I get this in the log
>
> May 17 19:04:20 fishfinger named[1111]: slave zone "" (IN)
> loaded (serial
> 33)
> May 17 19:04:20 fishfinger named[1111]: Zone
> "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (file
> 127.0.0): No default TTL set using SOA
> minimum instead
> etc etc etc.
>
> Now the 127 file looks like
>
> @ IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. (
> 1997022700 ; Serial
> 28800 ; Refresh
> 14400 ; Retry
> 3600000 ; Expire
> 86400 ) ; Minimum
> IN NS localhost.
>
> 1 IN PTR localhost.
>
>
> My question is
>
> Why do I get this 'TTL' message. I think I have seen
> somewhere that BIND
> 8.x.x and above requires a TTL directive in a zone file. Is
> this correct, or
> will it pick up a TTL value from the SOA ??
>
>
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