TTL default problem?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <38230db4 at news.cadvision.com>, M & J <mhutch at cadvision.com> wrote:
>This is the /var/log/messages
>
>Nov  5 09:55:45 icheeranddance named[2825]: Zone "lightsign.com" (file
>pz/lights
>ign.com): No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead
>
>this is the record for that zone:
>
>@               IN      SOA     ns.lightsign.com.
>mhutch.icheeranddance.ne
>t. (
>                        1999110311      ; serial
>                        86400           ; refresh
>                        7200            ; retry
>                        3600000         ; expire
>                        172800 )        ; default_ttl
>
>@               IN      NS      ns.lightsign.com.
>@               IN      MX      10      mail.lightsign.com.
>localhost               IN      A       127.0.0.1
>ns              IN      A       207.228.97.225
>ns              IN      MX      10      mail
>www             IN      CNAME   mail
>ftp             IN      CNAME   mail
>mail            IN      A       207.228.97.236
>mail            IN      MX      10      mail
>mhutch          IN      A       207.228.97.236
>
>Do you see any problems in it?

You don't have a $TTL directive to set the default TTL.  Since BIND 8.2,
the last parameter to the SOA record is the negative cache TTL, not the
default TTL.  The comment "; default_ttl" doesn't change that.

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