Raise your hand if you ever inadvertently caused a 2+ hour outage (which was impossible to fix in a deterministic manner) due to DNS misconfiguration. #itwasdns
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Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Oct-2025 10:21:38 JST
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Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Oct-2025 10:21:36 JST
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@AubreyDeLosDestinos oops yeah, one time sent an email with the subject and body "Test." to prod instead of test mailing list... 18,000 emails later...
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Aubrey De Los Destinos (aubreydelosdestinos@101010.pl)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Oct-2025 10:21:37 JST
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@geerlingguy I only messed up company emails and they all would end up in spam everywhere else.
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Kevin Neely :donor: (ktneely@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Oct-2025 10:22:54 JST
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@geerlingguy mine was more of a "I decommissioned this domain because it was the potential name of our company eight years ago, so surely we aren't using it anymore..!"
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