I should clarify I wasn’t a upper level sys admin managing those servers, I just used them or maintained accounts being a rank and file technician

While I get the fundamental concept of DNS as a phonebook for your IPs. I am not sure why it is joked around if something goes haywire or someone breaks something.

Is it because if you get no DNS, people can’t log in through their AD accounts, browse the Internet?

Afaik DNS is a bit of a rabbit hole topic, maybe that’s why people joke about it due to DNS being this “No one really knows how this magic name matching box works”?

Please correct me, I’d genuinely like to know why this is prevalent from you guys.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I got a story that perfectly illustrates the meme.

    Had done a solid job of setting up my first domain, from scratch. Everything was tooling along nicely for months until my administrator account kept locking itself, every few minutes.

    Logged in with another admin account and hunted for the issue for a month. Since it was affecting only my account, none of the users had issues. Finally found a single sentence in an obscure forum that pointed me. My DNS issue was buried deep in the DHCP settings.

    Despite knowing better, I had used my personal account to authorize interactions between the DNS and DHCP services. When I changed my password, DNS was still trying to use the old credentials, over and over again, locking my account.

    HOLY SHIT! If you google “dns haiku” my image is in the front page twice! Love it!