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mnutt on Nov 19, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft Azure Outage

Why should you have to keep the CNAME low if it always resolves to the same domain on Azure?

badgersandjam on Nov 19, 2014 [–]

Only because some caching DNS resolvers are broken and keep the referral cached for the TTL of the CNAME record.

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