Changing $TTL for many zones

[Barry Margolin]

In article <cemkbf$14n1$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:

> Exactly. I would go further and suggest that, since the SOA needs to be 
> changed anyway, just give an explicit TTL to the SOA RR, and thus 
> dispense with the $TTL directive completely (my assumption here is that 
> the SOA RR is the first RR in the zone file).

What is this supposed to accomplish?  Putting an explicit TTL on the SOA 
record doesn't create a default for the rest of the file; that's what 
$TTL is for.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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