TTL for name servers

Peter Andreev andreev.peter at gmail.com
Wed Jun 6 09:27:08 UTC 2012


2012/6/6 Mark Andrews <marka at isc.org>

>
> In message <CABUciRkVT6mBS0ZS3WL4tS7uTPgYNVBkOr890fsB9OoqP=
> CeOQ at mail.gmail.com>
> , Alexander Gurvitz writes:
> > Hi.
> >
> > TTL returned by YOUR zone authoritative server will (at least should) be
> > preferred by caches.
> >
> > Matt Larson from verisign explained on these:
> >
> > http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2004-07/msg00255.html
> >
> > Regards,
> > Alexander Gurvitz,
> > net-me.net
>
> TTL of NS records are complicated as the existance of the delegation
> is covered by the parents NS records but the contents of the NS
> records comes from the child zone.  Named looks at both TTLs to
> determine when to remove the NS RRset.
>

Mark, could you please describe the algorithm being used by BIND? Does it
choose NS rrset with lowest TTL or something else?


> https://deepthought.isc.org/article/AA-00691/
>
> If you are wanting to workout when to decommission a nameserver take the
> maximum of the two NS rrset after they have both been updated as when it
> is safe to decommission.
>
> Mark
>
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