TTL

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9if8m8$30h at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Mike Jimenez <mike at vpi.net> wrote:
>
>Another Question I did not setup Bind on this server originally and my zone
>files contain both of these statements within. Is this necessary to have
>both? Which one is actually shorter and how do I know what "3600" means. Is
>that hours or minutes?
>$TTL 3600
>259200  ; minimum TTL of 3 day

Before BIND 8.2, the Minimum TTL field of the SOA record was used to set
the default TTL.  Starting in 8.2, the $TTL directive was used for this,
because the MinTTL in the SOA record is now used as the negative cache
time.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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