← Back to context Comment by snowwrestler 5 days ago Right, because DNS entries never expire. 3 comments snowwrestler Reply grishka 5 days ago Of course they do, they have to. But it's okay for things that are sent to you over the network to expire. It's not okay for things built into your potentially abandoned OS to expire. snowwrestler 5 days ago > Of course they do, they have to.Why do they have to?(This will also tell you why certs in your OS need to expire.) grishka 4 days ago Because domains change owners.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074127
grishka 5 days ago Of course they do, they have to. But it's okay for things that are sent to you over the network to expire. It's not okay for things built into your potentially abandoned OS to expire. snowwrestler 5 days ago > Of course they do, they have to.Why do they have to?(This will also tell you why certs in your OS need to expire.) grishka 4 days ago Because domains change owners.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074127
snowwrestler 5 days ago > Of course they do, they have to.Why do they have to?(This will also tell you why certs in your OS need to expire.) grishka 4 days ago Because domains change owners.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074127
Of course they do, they have to. But it's okay for things that are sent to you over the network to expire. It's not okay for things built into your potentially abandoned OS to expire.
> Of course they do, they have to.
Why do they have to?
(This will also tell you why certs in your OS need to expire.)
Because domains change owners.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074127