I should clarify I wasn’t a upper level sys admin managing those servers, I just used them or maintained accounts being a rank and file technician

While I get the fundamental concept of DNS as a phonebook for your IPs. I am not sure why it is joked around if something goes haywire or someone breaks something.

Is it because if you get no DNS, people can’t log in through their AD accounts, browse the Internet?

Afaik DNS is a bit of a rabbit hole topic, maybe that’s why people joke about it due to DNS being this “No one really knows how this magic name matching box works”?

Please correct me, I’d genuinely like to know why this is prevalent from you guys.

  • trafficnab
    3·
    3 months ago

    I think I can spare the 55mb of ram my pihole container takes up

    • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
      41·
      3 months ago

      It’s crazy to read that when my Unbound has a 1.6 million host size block-list with regex filtered domains and uses at less than half that amount of RAM.

      • trafficnab
        51·
        3 months ago

        I’ll keep that in mind for the next time I need to run a DNS server on a Pentium II system

          • trafficnab
            2·
            3 months ago

            I tried that but it doesn’t run very well on the Pentium II