TTL for zones

[Brad Knowles]

At 6:01 PM +0100 5/17/01, David Jeffery wrote:

>  Why do I get this 'TTL' message.

	Because you don't have a "$TTL 86400" statement at the top of the file.

>                                   I think I have seen somewhere that BIND
>  8.x.x and above requires a TTL directive in a zone file.

	Correct.

>                                                           Is this correct, or
>  will it pick up a TTL value from the SOA ??

	Nope.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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