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312-50V10 · Question #637

One of your team members has asked you to analyze the following SOA record. What is the TTL? Rutgers.edu.SOA NS1.Rutgers.edu ipad.college.edu (200302028 3600 3600 604800 2400.

The correct answer is D. 2400. In a DNS SOA record, the five numeric fields in order are serial, refresh, retry, expire, and minimum TTL; the last value (2400) is the TTL.

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Question

One of your team members has asked you to analyze the following SOA record. What is the TTL? Rutgers.edu.SOA NS1.Rutgers.edu ipad.college.edu (200302028 3600 3600 604800 2400.

Options

  • A200303028
  • B3600
  • C604800
  • D2400
  • E60
  • F4800

How the community answered

(52 responses)
  • A
    2% (1)
  • B
    6% (3)
  • C
    4% (2)
  • D
    75% (39)
  • F
    13% (7)

Why each option

In a DNS SOA record, the five numeric fields in order are serial, refresh, retry, expire, and minimum TTL; the last value (2400) is the TTL.

A200303028

200303028 does not appear in the record; 200302028 is the serial number used for zone transfer versioning, not the TTL.

B3600

3600 appears twice in the record but represents the refresh interval and retry interval, not the TTL.

C604800

604800 is the expire value, which defines how long a secondary server treats its zone data as authoritative without a successful refresh, not the TTL.

D2400Correct

A DNS SOA record contains five time-related fields inside the parentheses: serial number, refresh interval, retry interval, expire time, and minimum TTL. In this record - (200302028 3600 3600 604800 2400) - the values map sequentially, making 2400 the minimum TTL, also used as the negative caching TTL per RFC 2308. This field specifies the minimum time in seconds that resource records from this zone should be cached by resolvers.

E60

The value 60 does not appear anywhere in the SOA record provided.

F4800

The value 4800 does not appear anywhere in the SOA record provided.

Concept tested: DNS SOA record field order and minimum TTL

Source: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1035#section-3.3.13

Topics

#SOA record#DNS TTL#zone record fields#minimum TTL

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