Language is important. "DNS propagation" is another one of those instances of jargon or thought terminating cliches where, if DNS resolution isn't working for s

Language is important. "DNS propagation" is another one of those instances of jargon or thought terminating cliches where, if DNS resolution isn't working for some reason, it can be chalked up to this poorly understood, ill-defined boogeyman of "propagation" where the mechanics of what is actually going on are simply handwaved away and hidden behind some convenient buzzword. "Try turning it off and on again," or "try again in 24 hours" as a voodoo chicken coding [0] solution to the problem. It's the modern networking equivalent of saying "god did it," where some poorly understood phenomena is relegated to a nebulous term that isn't ever properly defined or elaborated upon. Better to dispense with such shady and fuzzy terminology and enter into a discussion of what is actually going on, which is resolver caching according to TTL fields in a DNS answer. In light of increasing layers of opaque abstraction, encouraging people to build correct mental models of what the hell computers are actually doing is becoming ever more important. [0] https://wiki.c2.com/?VoodooChickenCoding https://wiki.c2.com/?VoodooChickenCoding