diff --git a/bin/tests/system/resolver/ns4/tld2.db b/bin/tests/system/resolver/ns4/tld2.db
index 2d8f428cb9..45dc6943a5 100644
--- a/bin/tests/system/resolver/ns4/tld2.db
+++ b/bin/tests/system/resolver/ns4/tld2.db
@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ $TTL 300
 ns			A	10.53.0.4
 fetch.tld.		NS	ns.fetch.tld.
 ns.fetch.tld.		A	10.53.0.6
-fetchall  10              TXT     A short ttl
 fetchall  10              A     1.2.3.4
-fetchall  10              AAAA    ::1
+fetchall  10              AAAA  ::1
+fetchall  10              TXT   A short ttl
 no-edns-version.tld.	NS	ns.no-edns-version.tld.
 ns.no-edns-version.tld.	A	10.53.0.6
 edns-version.tld.	NS	ns.edns-version.tld.
diff --git a/bin/tests/system/resolver/tests.sh b/bin/tests/system/resolver/tests.sh
index 3862db6492..78fa92c617 100755
--- a/bin/tests/system/resolver/tests.sh
+++ b/bin/tests/system/resolver/tests.sh
@@ -444,8 +444,12 @@ sleep "${ttl1:-0}"
 dig_with_opts @10.53.0.5 fetchall.tld any > dig.out.2.${n} || ret=1
 ttl2=$(awk '/"A" "short" "ttl"/ { print $2 }' dig.out.2.${n})
 sleep 1
-# check that the nameserver is still alive
+# check that prefetch occurred;
+# note that only one record is prefetched, which is the TXT record in this case,
+# because of the order of the records in the cache
 dig_with_opts @10.53.0.5 fetchall.tld any > dig.out.3.${n} || ret=1
+ttl3=$(awk '/"A" "short" "ttl"/ { print $2 }' dig.out.3.${n})
+test "${ttl3:-0}" -gt "${ttl2:-1}" || ret=1
 if [ $ret != 0 ]; then echo_i "failed"; fi
 status=$((status + ret))