“When you get back the answer… it comes with a timestamp… you can keep that information for a day… caching infrastructure”
The Peterman Pod · The Story Behind Creating DNS | Paul Mockapetris
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What was described
Implemented caching of DNS responses with a TTL so that a resolver can reuse a record for up to a day
TTL up to a day
Said nearby on the same subject
“I wrote a like mini recorder tool where I could via slash command in Slack, say like, slash start recording, go through a whole flow in Slack. It would record every single API request I made across both to the normal web app backend and to our edge cache.”
“It takes another, like, two or three days still to slowly get everything transferred around and stashed away. We try to reuse a lot of things and re-theme them for the next years”