DNS Negative Caching

Chris Buxton clists at buxtonfamily.us
Fri Aug 28 15:05:57 UTC 2015


> Is that really still true? I thought that use of the Minimum field went 
> away when it was changed to be the negative cache TTL.

Barry,

Yes, it’s still true. If you don’t set a default TTL, then the last field of the SOA record does double duty as both a default TTL and a negative caching TTL. And no RFC has ever updated its name.

Chris Buxton


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