but that cannot be refreshed (due to network or authoritative server issues) to be served anyway.
The :ref:`setting-serve-stale-extensions` determines how many times the records lifetime can be extended.
-Each extension of the lifetimeof a record lasts 30s.
+Each extension of the lifetime of a record lasts 30s.
A value of 1440 means the maximum extra life time is 30 * 1440 seconds which is 12 hours.
If the original TTL of a record was less than 30s, the original TTLs will be used as extension period.