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fc417fc802today at 7:54 PM1 replyview on HN

Why would anyone want to use a DNS resolver that tampered with records on a large scale? The TTL is intentionally set by the originator of the record.

Or alternatively, if you don't tamper why would I want to use a service that serves stale data?


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robotresearchertoday at 8:26 PM

Every distributed system serves stale data.

You can define away ‘stale’ by picking a consistency model, but look inside the consistency machinery and you will see fresher data you aren’t allowed to have yet.