I feel like in situations where you say 'propagate' you understand it's wrong but it's going to translate to other people well. Those other people also understa

I feel like in situations where you say 'propagate' you understand it's wrong but it's going to translate to other people well. Those other people also understand it's an impossible question to truly answer. If DNS isn't even cached to begin with it's just solved. So the whole DNS propagation is highly contextual. Worse yet, now all DNS software is the same. Some caching dns servers still do the query every time. It's just that you answer with cache so it's fast. Some DNS servers will fail once and then near immediately be fixed. Since it's such a complicated subject. It's better to generalize and simplify as 'propagate'.