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That's pretty bad. Admittedly, they update their zone very frequently (every time a user signs up/changes name/deletes themselves), but you'd think they would
by tmx 14y ago
That's pretty bad.
Admittedly, they update their zone very frequently (every time a user signs up/changes name/deletes themselves), but you'd think they would have an independent secondary DNS provider somewhere.
- cmelbye 14y agoDo they really? It seems more likely that they'd simply use a wildcard.
- tmx 14y agoThat'll teach me to post late at night. I forgot wildcards existed. I was thinking that (if I built tumblr) they would do subdomain searching at the DNS level to avoid hitting their database. Makes it even worse if they are using wildcards.
- X-Istence 14y agoBut if you don't publish an A record you get an ugly browser error message, whereas publishing the wildcard gives the user a notice saying that no such blog exists.
- rdl 14y agoI believe they use ultradns (a nice, but very expensive, dns service).