Re: [dnsext] TTL on DS records

Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> Sat, 21 February 2015 12:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dnsext] TTL on DS records
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On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 12:15:29PM +0100, Patrik Fältström wrote:
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> My personal view is that the TTL for the DS should be really short.

This would be yet another reason for people not to turn on validation,
because validating will become an excellent way to increase latency in
page loading.  It seems to me that you want to defend against one
problem (lousy operator) by creating a new one (poor caching).  I'm
not convinced that's an excellent trade off.

A

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