On Monday, October 18, 2004, 19:11:38, Len Conrad wrote:
>>> 12 hours.
>>
>>plus Refresh interval if the slaves don't support NOTIFY.
>
> slaves don't respect TTL (used for caching only), because they are 
> authoritative for the zone, so don't cache the records.

Precisely so when they return a record its the full 12 hour TTL.

>>Assume a 4 hour Refresh interval
>>- slave makes a SOA query and finds it has the latest serial number
>>- you change your master
>>- 3.99+ hours later someone queries the slave and receives and caches
>>   the old IP with a 12 hour TTL
>>- 11.99+ hours later that IP is still in the cache
>
> Theoretically correct, but BIND and W2K DNs both send notify to all NS 
> records by default, so in practice, you're splitting frog hairs worrying 
> about slave latency.

I'm a pessimistic paranoid :-)

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