Why does named log the warning message "no TTL specified - using SOA MINTTL instead"?

  • Updated on Sep 27, 2018
  • Published on Jan 19, 2017
  • 1 minute(s) read
  • Suzanne Goldlust

Your zone file is illegal according to RFC1035. It must either have a line like:

$TTL 86400

at the beginning, or the first record in it must have a TTL field, like the "84600" in this example:

example.com. 86400 IN SOA ns hostmaster ( 1 3600 1800 1814400 3600 )