On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 09:36:04PM +0000, Tony Finch wrote:
> > * caching SERVFAIL, as recommended (section 4), raises an interesting
> >   question: for how long? (Unlike NXDOMAIN, SERVFAIL answers do not
> >   provide an indirect TTL)
> 
> This is a feature of the forthcoming BIND 9.11. The default servfail-ttl
> is one second. (I don't know if other servers have a similar feature.)
> 
> https://source.isc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=bind9.git;a=blob;f=CHANGES;hb=refs/heads/master#l1370

SERVFAIL caching is permitted by RFC 2308 for up to five minutes.  It's
described as optional there.  I don't think it's a good idea to use the
word "should" in this new draft.

-- 
Evan Hunt -- e...@isc.org
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.

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