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Backwards time flow from tracking the 27th leap second on 2016-12-31T23:59:60Z caused the weighted round-robin selection of DNS resolvers (RRDNS) to panic and fail on some CNAME lookups. Go’s time.Now() was incorrectly assumed to be monotonic; this injected negative values into calls to rand.Int63n(), which panics in that case.

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