TTL From Parent or Child Zone?

Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.djbdns
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi all,

One of the particular annoyances I have with BIND is that it blatantly
ignores RFC 2181 ranking rules.  It lets the TTL from a parent zone
take over a child zone.  So, if I want to look up a host by name and
it happens to be serving a domain's DNS and also to be inside that
domain's namespace, so that the glue for the domain's name from the
upper-level zone includes the child's name and address, BIND will go
caching the non-authoritative, additional data when it really wants
the proper, authoritative data from the master zone, including the
TTL, plus the right set of nameservers at the cut.

Is djbdns likewise afflicted by this bug?  I do consider it a bug
unless there's another way to read the RFCs, on which point I'm happy
to further discuss.  But BIND has exceeded the "Blatant rule-breaking
threshold" already, and my bugs have all gone unanswered.  Besides,
now I only want a cache, and dnscache is cute.

Cheers,
Sabahattin

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