Re: zone file settings question

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zone file settings question
\ Madison Kelly (15 Oct 2007)
. \ Adam Tkac (15 Oct 2007)
. \ Jeremy C. Reed (15 Oct 2007)

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Subject:	Re: zone file settings question
Group:	Bind-users
From:	Jeremy C. Reed
Date:	15 Oct 2007

...snip...

> - minimum
> Not sure even of a guess...
>
> I hope these aren't "obvious" questions... I tried reading the docs
> at the ICS website, but couldn't find these details.

The ARM isn't to clear about all of these in one place and jumps round a
lot. It does refer to RFC 1035 also.

As for "minimum", it is documented in the ARM:

The last field in the SOA is the negative caching TTL. This
controls how long other servers will cache no-such-domain
(NXDOMAIN) responses from you.

The maximum time for negative caching is 3 hours (3h).

Jeremy C. Reed