Comment on Why is DNS often joked about in the I.T. Industry?

shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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!

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