$TTL & NT boxes

[Danny Mayer]

At 06:34 PM 5/1/01, - wrote:

>Hi,
>
>We have BIND 8.2.3 masters with Windows NT 4 slaves. When I set the new
>$TTL value to 86400 and the old TTL value (which is now negative
>caching) to 3600, an SOA check on the NT secondaries shows the correct
>serial number, with a TTL of 3600.

         Are you talking about Microsoft's Windows NT DNS Servers?  Even
Microsoft doesn't support them.  They support Windows 2000 DNS Servers.

>It appears that NT 4 does not use the new $TTL directive but still using
>the value that BIND uses for negative caching.
>
>Is this correct? If so, it appears I need to set the BIND negative
>caching to what I want for the forward caching for the NT boxes.

         See above. If you install BIND 8.2.3 for NT Software you should have 
no problem.

         Danny