TTL problem?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <200011210510.eAL5AbG98400 at drugs.dv.isc.org>,
 <Mark.Andrews at nominum.com> wrote:
>
>
>	If you specify a "$TTL 3600" you will suppress this warning
>	which is just there to say that you are getting behaviour that
>	is different from BIND 8.
>
>	Alternatively you could just set ctx->warn_1035 to ISC_FALSE in
>	lib/dns/master.c where it is currently set to ISC_TRUE.  This
>	really needs to be a config file option.

Zillions of people upgrading from pre-8.2 to 8.2 and higher have
misunderstood these warnings (previously the wording was "No default TTL
set, using SOA minimum").  I think it's time for ISC or Nominum to peform a
survey and try to find some wording that all these confused admins would
find meaningful.

>> I've been getting the below message whenever i restart/reload my bind server
>> 
>> Nov 21 12:23:30 bind named[4281]: dns_master_load: abc.com:14: using RFC 
>> 1035 TTL semantics
>> 
>> This is the values in my db files.
>> 
>> @ 3600          IN SOA  bind.example.com.  hostmaster.bind.example.com. (
>>                          200006211
>>                          28800
>>                          7200
>>                          604800
>>                          28800 )
>> 
>> Any comments on these values?
>> Or is there anyway to shut off all these notices from my logs then?
>> 
>> best regards,
>> sixx
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>


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