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Your time would've been better spent fixing your DNS servers, adding a second one for redundancy. If you told me you couldn't make DNS work in 1996, I would've laughed, figured you were just inexperienced. If you told me you couldn't make it work today , I'd ask HR to get the paperwork ready.
Wow. You would choose a failure rate of nonzero over a failure rate of zero and threaten a coworker with an HR trip for disagreeing with you? I'm so glad I don't work with you.
Ok. Let's go back to 1985 and use host files. Who wants to join me?