DNS Wizards at Work

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You’ve reached a realm in between IP space and human-readable reality. Our nameservers are currently recalibrating their flux capacitors, hand-feeding TTLs, and making sure no packets escape the sandbox. 🧙‍♂️🛠️

$ dig ns this-domain.example

; <<>> DiG 9.19 <<>> ns this-domain.example
;; STATUS: IN-PROGRESS
;; ANSWER: <registry echoes ominously>
;; RETRY  : better luck in a few minutes…
“There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and convincing DNS to behave.”