DNS

DNS articles and guides from the kant.au team.

9 August 2026

DNS Propagation Isn’t Real. Here’s What’s Actually Happening.

You changed a DNS record, and someone told you to wait 24 to 48 hours for it to propagate. That advice describes a real experience, a change that takes a while to show up everywhere, but the wrong mechanism behind it. Knowing the real one tells you exactly what to check instead of just waiting […]

5 July 2026

Someone Changed Your DNS Records Three Days Ago. Would You Know?

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An agency gets a support call. A client’s email has been broken for three days. They dig in and find the MX records changed, quietly, a few days earlier. Not a hack, just an edit by someone at the client’s end who thought they were fixing something. Three days of missed business emails because no […]