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by highprofittrade 2421 days ago
What if you accidently make changes to your authoritative nameserver you want the recovery to be as fast possible because it's a complete outage
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Nothing precludes you from upping the TTL after the change. Traditionally DNS admins progressively drop the TTL prior to a change to reduce the time an RRSet is in flux (so if your TTL is N, N + 1 seconds prior you drop it to half N, and again and again until its your preferred window size) and cautious ones slowly ramp back up again to the regular value.