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    Relax ADDITIONAL TTL capping checks · 8baf8590
    Michał Kępień authored
    Always expecting a TTL of exactly 300 seconds for RRsets found in the
    ADDITIONAL section of responses received for CD=1 queries sent during
    TTL capping checks is too strict since these responses will contain
    records cached from multiple DNS messages received during the resolution
    process.
    
    In responses to queries sent with CD=1, ns.expiring.example/A in the
    ADDITIONAL section will come from a delegation returned by ns2 while the
    ANSWER section will come from an authoritative answer returned by ns3.
    If the queries to ns2 and ns3 happen at different Unix timestamps,
    RRsets cached from the older response will have a different TTL by the
    time they are returned to dig, triggering a false positive.
    
    Allow a safety margin of 60 seconds for checks inspecting the ADDITIONAL
    section of responses to queries sent with CD=1 to fix the issue.  A
    safety margin this large is likely overkill, but it is used nevertheless
    for consistency with similar safety margins used in other TTL capping
    checks.
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