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Re: Dyn DDoS this AM?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Mezei)
Fri Oct 21 21:20:46 2016

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Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 21:12:23 -0400
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On 2016-10-21 18:45, david raistrick wrote:

> switch too..).   setting TTLs that make sense for a design that supports
> change is also easy.

Cuts both ways. Had Twitter had TTLs of say 7 days, vast majority
wouldn't notice an outage of a few hours because their local cache wa
still valid.

It does prevent one from reacting quickly to emergencies.

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