Hello Vladimir,

On Sat, 2020-12-12 at 11:46 +0100, Vladimír Čunát wrote:
>  From resolver point of view... this implies that signed *positive* 
> wildcard answers will now get cached with this shorter "negative TTL", 
> right?  These do need to deny existence of non-wildcard match, so they 
> need to contain NSEC*.

That depends on whether a resolver caches wildcards with the TTL of the
wildcard RRset, or of the NSECs proving that the wildcard expansion is
valid. My suspicion is that most resolvers today do the former, and
when they grow the 'aggressive NSEC for wildcards' feature, they'll
take MIN(former, latter).

> Maybe the final text would better explicitly note such implications, but 
> that certainly can wait way past WG adoption. Also it might be confusing 
> that just by singing a zone the effective TTL of these answers would get 
> lower - assuming I got your intention right (if not, perhaps the current 
> text wasn't clear enough anyway).

Whether signing a zone lowers the TTL on an expanded wildcard depends entirely 
on the implementation - basically my previous paragraph in this email. I'd say 
the right approach is the MIN(..) from the previous paragraph.

However, I'm unsure what text the document should have about this. As in my 
response to Matthijs, the problem flows from 8198 but the problem is not in 
8198. That said, we can always put more explanations in this document - perhaps 
even a Background section, and then I can shorten the Introduction section to 
only explain the core of the problem.
 
Kind regards,
-- 
Peter van Dijk
PowerDNS.COM BV - https://www.powerdns.com/

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