Re: [DNSOP] I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-serve-stale-03.txt

[Dave Lawrence <[e-mail]>]

Bob Harold writes:
> Will the "resolution recheck timer" cause ttl's less than the timer
> to be effectively lengthened, by refusing to look them up again?  I
> think 'serve-stale' should focus on the situation where the auth
> server is not available, and not change the handling of short ttl's.
> Or am I mis-reading that?

Mildly misreading, though it does point out that we could make it
clearer that this is akin to existing mechanisms that resolvers have
to cache that an authority is problematic (eg, RFC 2308 Section 7).
It is NOT about the feature that some resolvers also have, a minimum
cache TTL, which is what you're concerned about and we don't intend to
address in this document.  As you say, and unfortunately we somehow
managed to not make clear, the purpose is only to deal with failures
to refresh authoritative data.