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   `Da Elf (elfin@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Oct-2025 04:02:21 JST `Da Elf

   People ...

   1. Do not use one of those Site Builders to build your site. They are Ala Carte and by the time you're done you're paying more than you would for my services (and I'm bloody expensive). Get a real web person (not me) to do your site, and an actual Internet Engineer to do your business infrastructure like DNS and EMail (that's me).

   2. I'm specifically looking at Wix, I've been doing BIND for some 30+ years, this "DNS" is a pile of flaming dog shit.

   3, Don't listen to "your friend".

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     @elfin I have BIND on my home router because I wanted intranet DNS hostnames and it lets me hit the root nameservers directly instead of using questionable public DNS servers. :blobfox:
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Saturday, 04-Oct-2025 03:05:36 JST feld

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     • cpm
     @elfin @cpm knowing where to find the answer is often more valuable than wasting time memorizing something you'll rarely need
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     `Da Elf (elfin@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Oct-2025 03:05:38 JST `Da Elf

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     • cpm

     @cpm Pifft, < I > can't do IPv6 math in my head.

     We don't need to know Everything, just need to know where to look it up. And I have some of the important things bound in (*gasp*) Dead Tree if I really need it.

     "I have been around long enough that I've memorized The Common FuckUps and Catastrophies and many of the more obscure." ... everything else is in the docs, StackExchange, or I actually have to work for a living amd figure it out myself.

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     cpm (cpm@spore.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Oct-2025 03:05:39 JST cpm

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     @elfin
     i don't now
     nor ever did have any great 'chops'
     that said
     on what we used to call 'Internet Core Protocols'
     I was at least literate

     i still ref to my ancient cisco cheatsheet docs to quickly lay out network subnets, never did memorise'em, and i can't do v6 math in my head

     In my mind, I boggle, and think "my dudes! it's not *that* hard, wtf?"

     but also, I mentally dismiss that value of, like you, 'but, you've been doing this stuff for 30+ years, , , mostly by-hand'

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     cpm (cpm@spore.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Oct-2025 03:05:40 JST cpm

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     @elfin
     

     the day I knew I don't fit in this world anymore;

     buddy, then a RH dev, dropped a bunch of docs & a few books on me, gave me an account on internal RH dev stuff, so I could help him write BIND protocols for ansible/kubernates deployment,

     &

     I saw 1st hand how those folks were handing dns , , ,

     Run Away!
     Now!
     Set the trail on fire in your wake!
     Don't Look Back!