Changing $TTL for many zones

[Kevin Darcy]

Barry Margolin wrote:

>In article <cemkbf$14n1$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
> Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Exactly. I would go further and suggest that, since the SOA needs to be 
>>changed anyway, just give an explicit TTL to the SOA RR, and thus 
>>dispense with the $TTL directive completely (my assumption here is that 
>>the SOA RR is the first RR in the zone file).
>>    
>>
>
>What is this supposed to accomplish?  Putting an explicit TTL on the SOA 
>record doesn't create a default for the rest of the file; that's what 
>$TTL is for.
>
Giving the first RR in the zone file an explicit TTL is functionally 
equivalent to establishing a default TTL value, if none of the other 
records have an explicit TTL.

                                                                         
                  - Kevin