DNS explained: the part that breaks at the worst moment
A, CNAME, MX, TXT, TTL — the handful of records that decide whether people reach your site and your email arrives. Plus why 'propagation' is mostly a myth.
The records that decide whether people reach your site and whether your email lands in an inbox or a bin.
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A, CNAME, MX, TXT, TTL — the handful of records that decide whether people reach your site and your email arrives. Plus why 'propagation' is mostly a myth.
A hijacked domain redirects your traffic, intercepts your email and impersonates you at your own address. Four controls that prevent nearly all of it.
Since 2024 the big providers reject unauthenticated mail rather than filtering it. Three DNS records decide whether you reach the inbox or the bin.
Migrations go wrong in predictable ways. The TTL trick, the order of operations, and the one mistake that takes email down for a day.
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