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
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