BIND caching of nxdomain responses

Matus UHLAR - fantomas uhlar at fantomas.sk
Fri Oct 22 14:28:44 UTC 2021


On 22.10.21 09:57, Dan Hanks wrote:
>As I understand RFC 2308, when receiving an NXDOMAIN response, and when
>deciding how long to cache that NXDOMAIN response, a resolver should use
>whichever value is lower of the SOA TTL, and the SOA.minimum value as the
>length of time to cache the NXDOMAIN.
>
>I have a situation where I am seeing different behavior from that in BIND.
>Given the following SOA record:
>
>azure.mongodb.net.      900     IN      SOA     ns-1430.awsdns-50.org.
>awsdns-hostmaster.amazon.com. 1 7200 900 1209600 60
>
>I am finding that BIND (9.11.x) is caching the NXDOMAIN response for 900s
>(SOA TTL), instead of the expected 60s (SOA.minimum).
>
>I have noticed that many auth servers out there will drop the SOA TTL to
>match the SOA.minimum value when attaching the SOA record to an NXDOMAIN
>response. Is BIND expecting this to happen, and just opting to use the SOA
>TTL value (and not the SOA.minimum value if they disagree)?

are you authoritative server for azure.mongodb.net?
if not, BIND will use cache time that came from authoritative server adn
won't parse the SOA itself.

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