$TTL statement
Martin, Kevin
kevinm at crt.com
Thu Aug 5 20:59:50 UTC 1999
Damn, thought you might say something like that. I actually configure my
DNS via scripts that pull in h2n to read and build my zones. Unfortunately,
h2n adds the $INCLUDE statement at the end of the zone by default. I'll
have to modify h2n to put it at the top.
Thanks for the info.
Kevin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Margolin [mailto:barmar at bbnplanet.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 3:29 PM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.uu.net
> Subject: Re: $TTL statement
>
>
> In article
> <F931488C3634D11180D700A02461E24501E4EE25 at chitmd03.nt.il.nbgfn.com>,
> Martin, Kevin <kevinm at crt.com> wrote:
> >For Bind 8, does the $TTL statement HAVE to go before the
> SOA record or can
> >I put it in a spcl.<domain> file?
>
> You can put it anywhere you want, but it only applies to
> records that come
> after it. If you put it in spcl.<domain>, then you should put the
>
> $INCLUDE spcl.<domain>
>
> line before any records that don't have explicit TTLs. If
> the SOA record
> doesn't have an explicit TTL, you should put it before the SOA.
>
> --
> Barry Margolin, barmar at bbnplanet.com
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