Michael J. Sheldon <mshel...@godaddy.com> wrote: > > If a record is requested from an authoritative server, where the zone > does not exist, generally the response is REFUSED, but *this is not > cached* by the requesting server. This results in a nearly continuous > stream of retries, which continue to result in the same response. Our > authoritative servers see no less than 15%, and sometimes as much as 25% > of our worldwide traffic as these non-authoritative responses.
Yuck :-( BIND's default lame-ttl is 10 minutes; I don't know if other resolvers have a similar feature. It might be better from your point of view if the lame-ttl matched the delegation TTL, but I bet that would be a bit frustrating for operators who set up a new delegation in the wrong order! Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ Dogger: Variable 2 to 4, becoming south 3 to 5. Slight. Rain. Good, becoming moderate or poor. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
