Question about 8.2.2 $TTL

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 08:19:55AM -0600, Barry Finkel wrote:
> I have a question regarding the 8.2.2 $TTL statement.  I am currently
> running 8.1.2, and I want to upgrade to 8.2.2 for testing with the
> Microsoft Windows 2000 DNS.  If I want to upgrade my primary DNS, I
> need to put $TTL directives in all of my primary zones.  Will the $TTL
> be transfered with the zones to my secondaries.  forcing me to have to
> upgrade my secondaries to 8.2.2 at the same time?  Thanks.

The $TTL is not a resource record, that gets transferred.  Think it as a
"macro" that does text substitution in all subsequent resource records.
The ones without an explicit TTL get the one specified in the $TTL
directive.  THAT is what gets transferred to the "slave" servers.  And
it will work - as all DNS is supposed to do - with all previous BIND
servers.

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