rndc flush and TTL values

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.1138.1377164540.20661.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
 sumsum 2000 <sum2hike at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is my configuration for  positive and negative cache TTL.
> 
>                         view "newDNS" IN {
>                         max-cache-ttl 300;
>                         max-ncache-ttl 200;
> 
>                         zone  "makemytrip.com" IN  {
>                                 type forward;
>                                 forwarders {192.168.215.101;};
>                                 forward only;
>                         };
> 
> When I run dig abc.com for the first time, the TTL shows 135 and when I
> rndc flush, i expect the TTL to start again afresh, without the knowledge
> of the previous query, but i get a TTL say 133 and further queries followed
> by rndc flush gives the reduced TTL values.
> 
> rndc flush, flushes the cache, but the TTL is not reset. Is this the
> expected behavior.
> Thanks
> S

Do you use forwarders for other zones beside makemytrip.com? If you 
forward to a caching server, you'll get their TTLs when you re-query 
afte flushing, not the TTLs from the authoritative servers.

-- 
Barry Margolin
Arlington, MA