<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">This is a horrible reason to enable serve-stale. Serve stale is a bandaid. You should increase a resiliency of the architecture - have more nameservers for the domain, make the restarts seamless, etc.<div><br></div><div>Serve-stale was meant to deal with unexpected outages and not as a workaround for bad engineering in the first place.</div><div><br></div><div>Ondřej<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div>Ondřej Surý — ISC (He/Him)<div><br></div><div>My working hours and your working hours may be different. Please do not feel obligated to reply outside your normal working hours.</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 6. 11. 2023, at 3:04, Prasanna Mathivanan (pmathiva) via bind-users <bind-users@lists.isc.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi team,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If there is a scenario where NS are not reachable, until its up we can serve from cache.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Enabling serve-stale can help us with this use case, is it safe to enable this parameter and what should be the recommended value set for max-stale-ttl ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Prasanna<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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