Doesn't "negative TTL" mean the time-to-live for a missing or non-existant record (NXDOMAIN or something)? > That isnt actuly an error, everything should still be running, its just > letting you know you didnt specify a TTL. The confusion is the TTL in the > SOA isnt really a TTL anymore, its a "Negitive TTL" and means something > slightly different. I dont remember exactly what, but I am sure some site > will tell you. So you now have to put a > > $TTL ##### > > statement as your first line if you want to specify a TTL. (Highly > recomened- its never a good idea to just let the computer decide things > like that) > > > Jay > > On Saturday 23 February 2002 01:44 pm, you wrote: > > You need a "zone" default TTL at the top of the file. The first line > > should read: > > > > $ttl 86400 > > > > or using some other value. This is required because each resource > > record in the zone must have a TTL and uses the default TTL, unless you > > specify one for said record. > > > > Right? > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Shawn Fertch" <fertch at mninter.net> > > To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > > Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 1:23 PM > > Subject: [TCLUG] Hopefully a simple DNS/BIND question > > > > > 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 > > > > > > What I'm curious is, is there something I mistyped? I went per the > > > book, and everything looks correct. However, the book is for Bind8 > > > and Bind 9 is on the server. Is there that much of a difference to > > > cause this issue? > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Shawn > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > > > > Minnesota > > > > > http://www.mn-linux.org > > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > > Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list