Andy NewtonThis old meme has been going around for years, but in the aftermath of the AWS outage there has been some pushback on-line about it. And that's a good thing, because it is likely that people new to the industry are not in on the joke and might take the meme more literally.<br><br>This meme was never about DNS being unreliable, but about the nature of troubleshooting issues in that DNS is so reliable many of us assume we have set it up correctly and overlook our mistakes with DNS when looking for root causes.<br><br>It is unfortunate, but way too many people function off of received opinion, and AI is likely making that worse. FWIW, I did once work with an operations manager who insisted we hardcode IP addresses because DNS used UDP and UDP was "unreliable".<br><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://akk.novalug.org/tag/dns" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dns</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://akk.novalug.org/tag/memes" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memes</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://akk.novalug.org/tag/receivedopinion" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#receivedopinion</a>