timeouts and negative caching

[Gerd v. Egidy]

Hi,

> Where do these 300 seconds come from and how can I configure them? I'd like
> to drastically reduce them to something like 10 seconds or so to make sure
> bind retries to resolve a query shortly after a timeout.

I've upgraded my bind version to 9.10.2 and there this timeout-ttl is set to 
10 seconds. So some of the developers seem to agree with my idea that 10 
seconds is a good value for this.

Kind regards,

Gerd