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0 pointstinco12y ago0 comments

Yes, perhaps there lies our folly. It's the choice between being flexible in ability to move our servers really quick, or being tolerant of DNS servers going down.

I sort of hoped that a DNS client would just use an expired DNS result in case the servers would not respond, but perhaps that is naieve/dumb.

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toomuchtodo12y ago

> I sort of hoped that a DNS client would just use an expired DNS result in case the servers would not respond

This would break the whole concept of TTLs.

> but perhaps that is naieve/dumb.

Not at all. Hard problems are hard to solve.

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