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Re: Days since it was DNS

#4
Ok, since I’m obviously not nerdy and/or cynical enough to get the joke, what exactly is wrong with DNS? None of the links seem to indicate what exactly the problem with it is.

Re: Days since it was DNS

#5
post #4

Ok, since I’m obviously not nerdy and/or cynical enough to get the joke, what exactly is wrong with DNS? None of the links seem to indicate what exactly the problem with it is.

As someone who administers DNS servers, I'm going to guess this is due to DNS being the first thing that gets blamed when something goes wrong; and it is almost never DNS.

Re: Days since it was DNS

#6
post #4

Ok, since I’m obviously not nerdy and/or cynical enough to get the joke, what exactly is wrong with DNS? None of the links seem to indicate what exactly the problem with it is.

It's not DNS. There's no way it's DNS. It was DNS.

https://medium.com/adevinta-tech-blog/its-not-always-dns-unl...

Re: Days since it was DNS

#7
post #4

Ok, since I’m obviously not nerdy and/or cynical enough to get the joke, what exactly is wrong with DNS? None of the links seem to indicate what exactly the problem with it is.

A DNS misconfiguration is often the root cause of an issue. Hence the saying “it’s always DNS”.

Re: Days since it was DNS

#8
post #6
post #4

Ok, since I’m obviously not nerdy and/or cynical enough to get the joke, what exactly is wrong with DNS? None of the links seem to indicate what exactly the problem with it is.

It's not DNS. There's no way it's DNS. It was DNS. https://medium.com/adevinta-tech-blog/its-not-always-dns-unl...

Discussed here:

It's not always DNS, unless it is - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38719126 - Dec 2023 (73 comments)

Re: Days since it was DNS

#9
post #4

Ok, since I’m obviously not nerdy and/or cynical enough to get the joke, what exactly is wrong with DNS? None of the links seem to indicate what exactly the problem with it is.

As someone who administers DNS servers, I'm going to guess this is due to DNS being the first thing that gets blamed when something goes wrong; and it is almost never DNS.

Ha!

https://9gag.com/gag/avOj8WE

Re: Days since it was DNS

#10
post #4

Ok, since I’m obviously not nerdy and/or cynical enough to get the joke, what exactly is wrong with DNS? None of the links seem to indicate what exactly the problem with it is.

As someone who administers DNS servers, I'm going to guess this is due to DNS being the first thing that gets blamed when something goes wrong; and it is almost never DNS.

That's the point, but often in many network issues, the name resolution is the root cause of the problem. Not necessarily the DNS itself. Sometimes the /etc/hosts is more than enough to cause headaches!
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