On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Marc Baudoin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, the $TTL directive was introduced in the zone files when

I was trying not to give away the specific change ;)


> the meaning of the last field of the SOA RR changed from minimum
> TTL to negative caching.  I don't remember when this took place
> but that's a long time ago.

A lot of things are starting to be a long time ago for us, I think.


>> > Topic 207.2 says: "Candidates should be able to create a zone
>> > file for a forward or reverse zone or root level server".  Is the
>> > "or root level server" really necessary?  Unless I'm mistaken,
>> > not everybody manages a root server...
>>
>> check the rewording.  I think it makes it more explicit that you're
>> managing root server hints.
>
> Better that way.  But I believe it should be moved to 207.1
> because it's useful for recursive caches (that's what 207.1 is
> about) and not for authoritative servers (that's what 207.2 is
> about).

It's too late to make that move but, I agree, there's some overlap
still in 207.1/.2.

Regards,
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G. Matthew Rice <[email protected]>                         gpg id: EF9AAD20
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