Hi Libor,

I agree that EXPIRE should not be seen as an excuse for poor TTL hygiene, I see 
it more as the final cleanup after-action, used to remediate real production 
impact as quickly as achievable. As a DNS guy, keeping the lights on is 
paramount to me. 

TTL guidance is a separate issue, I don’t think EXPIRE changes the expectation 
that an operator has the responsibility to choose TTL times that are 
appropriate for their business/operation, or any of the established best 
practices around that.  I see EXPIRE scoped strictly as an operational tool for 
post-correction alignment across a known set of DNS resolvers.

Best,
Duane


> On Nov 25, 2025, at 03:23, Libor Peltan 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I concur with Vladimir.
> 
> Anyway, I'd much rather see a BCP draft saying that TTLs in general SHOULD 
> NOT be larger than 5 minutes (probably both on authoritative side and the 
> resolvers' own ceiling).
> 
> /Libor
> 
> On 21. 11. 25 10:47, Vladimír Čunát wrote:
>> On 20/11/2025 17.30, Duane Powers wrote:
>>> I have submitted a new individual draft proposing the EXPIRE opcode,
>>> which allows an authenticated authoritative operator to request
>>> immediate deletion of a specific RRset from a resolver cache.
>> I'm afraid that this would even more encourage behavior that is detrimental 
>> to the DNS ecosystem.
>> 
>> I.e. we break our DNS, but since we can fix 8.8.8.8 and a few others, it's 
>> just fine.  I believe that this kind of cache-flushing should be very 
>> exceptional for absolute emergency, not something with an automated protocol.
>> 
>> --Vladimir | knot-resolver.cz
>> 
>> 
>> 
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