RFC 1034:DOMAIN NAMES - CONCEPTS AND FACILITIES
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... critical than instantaneous updates or guarantees of consistency. Hence the update process allows updates to percolate out through the users of the domain ...
... network or host failure, the usual course is to believe old information while continuing efforts to update it. The general model is that copies are distributed with timeouts for refreshing. The distributor sets the timeout value and the ...



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