Re: TTL From Parent or Child Zone?

Matthew Dempsky <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.djbdns
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu
<[email protected]> wrote:
> The data in the parent zone isn't authoritative.  If djbdns caches it,
> it's wrong, IMHO.  It should discard additional data as fast as
> possible in favour of genuine data from the authoritative servers.
> This really means that as soon as you've learned the address of a name
> server in additional data, you use it once and then throw the
> additional data away.

No, there's no security risk from caching the data, and doing so
improves performance and decreases load on the DNS.
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