Re: [Sheflug] Re: My First Post - Connecting Linux to the Internet

[Richard Stevenson <nospam [at] team.xtra.co.nz>]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Chris J/#6 wrote:

> > dig . in ns > root.hints (or whatever filename you want)
> 
> Though one question...trying it now, and before I actually try 
> properly...it's returning the TTL data as, say:
> 
> 	E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5d23h58m25s IN A  192.203.230.10
> 
> note its not used a number of seconds, but rather split the time into 
> days/hours/mins/secs ... and I can't find the dig option to tell it to use 
> seconds instead (ie, raw output). I didn't think Bind could take d:h:m:s 
> times - thought it all had to be in seconds...

I think you'll find that Bind copes with that..  It'd better, there's *so*
much cruft in that codebase ;-)

Cheers

Richard

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