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   Paul_IPv6 (paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 10:39:25 JST Paul_IPv6

   • BrianKrebs
   • jb

   @jb @briankrebs

   yeah... as already mentioned in this thread, all sorts of things could have ganged agley, inadvertant or deliberate. considering the deranged chaos monkeys with chainsaws known as DOGE poking into everything, not inconceivable it could be either deliberate or oopsie...

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 10:39:25 JST Matt Blaze

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     @paul_ipv6 @jb @briankrebs I'm now seeing normal responses (with nih.gov, pubmed, etc all loading successfully for me). This wasn't true an hour ago.

     Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to both malice AND stupidity.

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     Paul_IPv6 (paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 10:40:40 JST Paul_IPv6

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     • petabites

     @HoustonDog @mattblaze @jb @briankrebs

     DNS is the full employment protocol. there's always a need for DNS folks to clean things up. :D

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 10:40:40 JST Rich Felker

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     @paul_ipv6 @HoustonDog @mattblaze @jb @briankrebs Unpopular opinion: DNS is easy. Breaking DNS is hard. It happens because people intentionally do dumb af cowboy shit, not because DNS is fragile.

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     petabites (houstondog@mastodon.world)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 10:40:42 JST petabites

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     @mattblaze @paul_ipv6 @jb @briankrebs
     
     zero days since it wasn't DNS...

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     petabites (houstondog@mastodon.world)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 11:25:12 JST petabites

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias
     
     I still have my "DNS and BIND" book from O'Reilly when it seemed necessary at the time in 1994 for a nailed down 128K circuit I used for unserious stuff.
     
     my kid thought it was a picture book because of the publisher's obligatory creature on the front cover (a cricket drawing, because of the author's name)

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     Paul_IPv6 (paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 11:25:23 JST Paul_IPv6

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     @dalias @HoustonDog @mattblaze @jb @briankrebs

     basic DNS is easy. the edge cases will turn your hair white.

     but designing robust DNS isn't hard if you are careful and it's pretty bomb proof compared to all sorts of other IETF/IEEE protocols.

     i'm old and tired. i always try for prudent and robust.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 11:26:50 JST Rich Felker

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     @paul_ipv6 @HoustonDog @mattblaze @jb @briankrebs The vast majority of edge cases are stuff you never hit unless you're trying to do dumb af shit with DNS, tho.