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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