SOA Minimum comment in "dig" output

[Daniel Stirnimann]

Hello Carsten,

> RFC 2308 "DNS NCACHE" defines the last field of the SOA RR as "the TTL of
> negative responses".

Negative caching TTL is not defined as the last field of the SOA RR:

"When the authoritative server creates this record its TTL
is taken from the minimum of the SOA.MINIMUM field and SOA's TTL."


> Why is dig still showing the old description "minimum" about the meaning
> of the field?

Because minimum is what it is? It's not negative caching ttl, see above.

Daniel