no default TTL error

[Michael Vincent K. Pozon - CompE]

add the $TTL 38400 at the very topmost of the zone file


On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Barry Margolin wrote:

> In article <8cvp4q$b6k$1 at pr1.plk.af.mil>,
> Randy Rokosz <Randy.Rokosz at plk.af.mil> wrote:
> >The following question in the FAQ referred to a problem I was having:
> >------
> >I'm getting an error: No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead.
> >Since BIND 8.2, you need a $TTL directive to set the default TTL for the
> >zone.
> >Add a '$TTL XXXXXX' directive prior to the SOA record for the zone. (XXXXXX
> >denotes the default TTL in seconds.)
> >-------
> >
> >I added the string '$TTL 38400' before the SOA record and it
> >didn't work... can someone provide a sample syntax/file for this?
> 
> That's all you should need to do.  Did you do this in *all* the zone files?
> 
> Are you getting this error on a slave server?  If the zone files were
> written by an older version of named-xfer, they won't have the $TTL
> directive in them.  You'll need to delete the files and reload named, to
> force it to transfer the files again.
> 
> -- 
> Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
> Genuity, Burlington, MA
> *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups.
> Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.
> 
> 

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