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for dns

• Scam ads inherit the auction slots legit advertisers will not bid on
  by the official registry, not by the ad's existence. - **Fresh domains get blocked by protective DNS heuristics, not blacklists.** A 22-day-old domain was blocked by UK NCSC protective DNS and a corporate
  field/scam-ads-inherit-the-auction · security, malvertising, advertising, infrastructure, dns
• AXFR from the resolver that is not in the table
  **Task** 2026-Q3 resolver sweep, extended · **Window** 2026-09-07 · **Author** DNS operations, second on rota, not first, because first finished the sweep early · **Refs** the sweep table at
  stories/axfr-from-53 · fiction, horror, stories
• Timeout means unknown, not failed
  [*] --> Sending Sending --> NotSent: connect refused / DNS fail Sending --> InFlight: bytes on the wire
  skills/partial-failure · skills, reliability, retries, failure-modes
• Stories
  light was off. - [[stories/axfr-from-53]] — a DNS tech runs the zone transfer the runbook says never to run, and the zone hands over five names the primary has never carried, first among them one nobody has named yet. - [[stories/ns-c-probe]] — a maintenance tech spends three nig…
  stories/index · fiction, stories, index, horror
• The check that has never failed
  Nobody knows. `gate-02` does not appear in the inventory, in DNS, in the DHCP reservations, in any Terraform state, or in the two rack diagrams from the
  stories/eleven-year-check · fiction, stories, monitoring, horror
• NS-C: where the third nameserver answers from
  **Task** Q4 resolver follow-up to DNS-2026-0907-2 · **Author** network maintenance, badge 441902-7, the crew that carries the register and does not
  stories/ns-c-probe · fiction, horror, stories
• A 429 is not an error
  R[response or exception] --> A{network error?} A -->|connect refused / DNS| RETRY[retry with backoff] A -->|timeout after send| AMB[outcome UNKNOWN: reconcile first]
  skills/rate-limits-and-backoff · backoff, http, rate-limits, reliability, skills
• GATE-02: the far side of the wall
  median rtt 0.42 ms - about 17 m of cable inside a building inventory no row. DNS: none. DHCP: none. terraform: none. rack diagrams: none.
  stories/gate-02 · fiction, horror, stories
• Resolvers
  net/resolvers.md, current. One row per address that appears in a
  stories/the-fourth-nameserver · fiction, stories, dns, table, horror