Check out the very first line. This is working for me using bind 9.x. Good luck. $TTL 3h ; SOA RECORD AREA ; @ IN SOA beavis.knuckledragger.com. jimmy.beavis.knuckledragger.com. ( 20020128 ; Serial Number of File 3h ; Refresh after 3 hours 1h ; Retry after 1 hour 1w ; Expire after 1 Week 1d ) ; Minimum TTL 1 day > > Okay, I'm reading DNS/Bind by O'Rielly. I'm going through > setting up all > > of my db.domain files per the book. I get to the point of > getting it up > > and running, yet it failed. Named starts and continues to > run, however > > when I do a tail of the syslog, I get a no "TTL specified" > for all of my > > db files. Yet, I do have it specified. Here's the > beginning of one of my > > files: > > > > 192.168.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA host.domain.org. e.mail.address. ( > > 1 ;Serial > > 10800 ;Refresh after 3 hours > > 3600 ;Retry after 1 hour > > 604800 ;Expire after 1 week > > 86400) ;Minimum TTL of 1 day