At 01:40 AM 2/27/00 -0500, you wrote:
Actually try: http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/docs/index.html
Thanks for this; hopefully it'll be helpful <smile> now that "DNS and Bind" is outdated <frown>.
$TTL is just a shorthand way to add a default TTL to the rest of the entries in the file, nice if you have hundreds of entries in a zone file, a bit over kill if you have a 1 or 2 host zone file.
That I know. What I don't know is why NOT including it generates an error in Bind 8.2.x and including it generates an error in 8.1.2? In fact, when I included it in zone files in 8.1.2, it kept the zone from loading, according to logging in /var/log/messages.
My reading of the documentation in "DNS and Bind" is that the last field of the SOA record is the default TTL for all records, but the "$ man named" file on the RaQ3 says it's only a TTL for negative responses. The lack of TTL works in 8.2.x, and the warning logged in /var/log/messages says it's defaulting to one day, which is what I always put into the SOA anyway, but I reallly want to know what's happening here.
Jeff -- Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>