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  • 5 months

    This is purely anecdotal, but I have been running into a lot of DNS issues over the past couple months where I work. 3 of the computers and even one of the laptops for remote work were having DNS issues that needed to be fixed. One even needed Windows reinstalled after fixing the DNS issue (Which was probably unrelated, but worth mentioning)

    I’m honestly starting to think that the internet in general might be imploding. Not sure why, but replacing so many developers and programmers with AI might be responsible. Who knows, but it’s definitely very strange.

    • The biggest issue is how centralized the internet has become. It went from a bunch of local servers to a handful of cloud providers.

      We need to spread things out again

      • But but Bezos has to pay for another rocket and yacht and he just got married!!! Think about his quarterly statement! My god are you heartless!!!

        /s

        (just in case it’s not obvious)

    • 5 months

      A huge problem are developers who lack a fundamental understanding of how the internet even works. I’ve had to explain how short, unqualified names resolve vs how fqdns resolve. Or why even you may not be able to reach another node in your proverbial cluster, because they are on different subnets. Or, why using GUIDs as hostnames is a generally bad idea, and will cause things to fail in unpredictable ways, especially with deeply nested subdomains.

      • I have worked with too many devs that didn’t even know what the 7 layers/OSI are or why they exist.

        they didn’t know what a network port was used for and why it’s important to not expose 3306 to the internet.

        they couldn’t understand that fragmentation of a message bus occurs when you don’t dedupe the contents.

        you know, morons.

          • 5 months

            Why the fuck would anyone use a guid as a hostname?

            My favorite I’ve seen in the category was when they had hostnames that were basically the IP address decorated with some bullshit. Like yeeeeeeeeah, that totally makes fucking sense. 😆

          • Why would someone want that as their hostname???
            I’d understand mountpoint but that?