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I have heard dozens of people describe DNS this way, yes, like it's a push behaviour. I don't know how much it matters but I think making it clearer is good.
by agentdrtran 5y ago
I have heard dozens of people describe DNS this way, yes, like it's a push behaviour. I don't know how much it matters but I think making it clearer is good.
- meetups323 5y agoThen the article should be titled "DNS doesn't push". Claiming it doesn't propagate is bizarre.
- mgiampapa 5y agoDNS servers push to other authoritative resolvers. There are all kinds of topologies for zone transfers. It's not what a user thinks of, but in terms of I updated a record and have to wait for it to be "everywhere" it's entirely part of the change latency to the end user and outside the scope of caching and TTLs being honored.
- robertlagrant 5y agoPropagation fairly strongly implies something emanating from a source.
- cassianoleal 5y agoIf I write a book and publish it, am I not propagating the ideas written on it? I still require readers to go online or to a bookshop and purchase my book, then read it. Once they do, the information has propagated to them. If someone explicitly asks them about the book and gets a good explanation, my ideas propagate further. In the case of DNS, the information does emanate from the upstream server, but only upon request, like the ideas in the book.
- robertlagrant 5y ago> am I not propagating the ideas written on it I don't think anyone would phrase it that way, no. "Propaganda" generally involves things like mass leaflet drops, messages blasted out of public address systems, that sort of thing.
- cassianoleal 5y agoWho said anything about propaganda? Not all ideas are classified that way, and I was talking about writing a book, not dropping leaflets.
- robertlagrant 5y agoIndeed. But the reason propaganda is called such is because it's an information push - to propagate (same root word) rather than publish information.