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Fun :). It would be interesting to see how accurate one could get the time records (I see a TTL of 1 second, but what if the algorithm for reporting the time could try to measure latency between DNS client and itself and . . . yadda yadda yadda). Wish we had more submissions like this one.

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The TTL doesn't really matter in this case because you query the dns.toys DNS server directly, rather than going through a remote recursive resolver (which would normally cache any results it gets based on the TTL).

Will a local stub resolver respect the TTL, or are queries to authoritative name servers never cached? I know something like dnsproxy would care about the TTL, but not sure about, say, systemd-resolved. But good point nonetheless.

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