Whats wrong with my zone files?

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Jon Harris wrote:

> I am just putting in a new BIND server (latest download) and its all
> installed fine. The old server is BIND 8.x
> ...
> This is how my zone files normally work, I call my zone file
> "db.thedomain.com" which look something like this (names and IP
> changed):
>
> ----------------------
> @ IN SOA ns0.mydomain.net. root.ns0.mydomain.net. (2008071801 10800 3600
> 604800 86400 )
> ...
> ---------------------
>
> However, this generates "no TTL specified; using SOA MINTTL instead"

This is mentioned in the O'Reilly book "DNS and BIND".

It's section 14.5.8 in my copy, which isn't as up to date as this one:

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596100575/

Basically add

$TTL xxx

before your SOA record, where xxx is the TTL of your choice.

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73,
Ged.