SOA Minimum comment in "dig" output

[Carsten Strotmann]

Hi Daniel,

Daniel Stirnimann <daniel.stirnimann at switch.ch> writes:

> 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.
>

great, make sense, and I forgot about this.

Thanks

Carsten