TTL?

AINA ALAIN PATRICK aalain at ecowasmail.net
Mon May 21 17:21:10 UTC 2001


> Im getting a little confused looking at the BIND8 book of O'Reilly. It
> says that the 5th field of the SOA record is the TTL but why now you at
> the list refers to de time to live as $TTL? What difference have  the
> $TTL directive and the field of the SOA record?

RFC 2308 changed the meaning of the final field in the SOA record to
negative caching TTL.

So you have to set the default TTL with the directive $TTL if you want
your records's TTL # from the negative TTL

hope this helps

--alain



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