Remember that this instance of named is learning answers which are also counting down the TTL as they come from the forwarder. The prefetch triggers a prefetch in the forwarder assuming it supports it but the learnt ttl is the same value the record that triggered the prefetch. -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka@isc.org