Question about 8.2.2 $TTL
Joseph S D Yao
jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Fri Nov 12 16:53:50 UTC 1999
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 08:19:55AM -0600, Barry Finkel wrote:
> I have a question regarding the 8.2.2 $TTL statement. I am currently
> running 8.1.2, and I want to upgrade to 8.2.2 for testing with the
> Microsoft Windows 2000 DNS. If I want to upgrade my primary DNS, I
> need to put $TTL directives in all of my primary zones. Will the $TTL
> be transfered with the zones to my secondaries. forcing me to have to
> upgrade my secondaries to 8.2.2 at the same time? Thanks.
The $TTL is not a resource record, that gets transferred. Think it as a
"macro" that does text substitution in all subsequent resource records.
The ones without an explicit TTL get the one specified in the $TTL
directive. THAT is what gets transferred to the "slave" servers. And
it will work - as all DNS is supposed to do - with all previous BIND
servers.
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Joe Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
COSPO/OSIS Computer Support EMT-B
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