problems w/homelink.fleet.com and bind 4.6

[Michael Fuhr]

"beetle bailey" <mrking01 at hotmail.com> writes:

> I don't know if anyone is running this old a version of bind, but we were 
> having problems getting to homelink.fleet.com and I noticed that it's A 
> record had a 0sec ttl.  Since we upgraded to 8.2.2 there have been no 
> problems.  Does anyone know what about the upgrade might have helped this 
> problem?  I hadn't done much troubleshooting before the upgrade so I'm 
> afraid all I know is resolution was taking a very long time.

I remember old versions of BIND having problems with zero TTLs.
This is mentioned in _DNS and BIND_, 3rd edition (Albitz & Liu),
page 189:

"Some older BIND 4 name servers can't return records with a TTL of
zero, instead returning null answers or SERVFAIL errors."

-- 
Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/