Re: Latest BIND for Debian and TTL

[Aleksey I Zavilohin <villain@ems.chel.su>]

Nathan Ridge wrote:
 > Hey guys, updated all servers to new bind and qpopper, one problem am having
 > is, under the new version ( 8.2.2 i think ) the name record format must have
 > changed, cause every time the name server restarts it gets an error:
 > 
 > Dec  8 10:06:42 webserver named[18810]: Zone "bennettpartners.com.au" (file
 > benn
 > ettpartners.com.au): No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead
 > Dec  8 10:06:42 webserver named[18810]: master zone "bennettpartners.com.au"
 > (IN
 > ) loaded (serial 1999120801)
 > 
 > I dont know how critial Time To Live is, i have looked up the man pages etc,
 > but caught find a Template for the new ones, this is how the name records
 > are formatted.:
 > 
 > $ORIGIN com.au.
 > bennettpartners IN  SOA     bennettpartners.com.au.
 > root.bennettpartners.com.au$
 >               1999120801
 >               7200    ; Refresh (2 hours)
 >               3600    ; Retry (1 hour)
 >               604800  ; Expire (7 Days)
 >               86400 ) ; Minimum TTL
 > 
 > 
 > although they load and work ok, i would still rather no errors when they are
 > loading.   Any ideas?
 > Any help appreciated.

Add
$TTL 86400
after $ORIGIN
8-) and enjoy

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