When will this tired meme be retired?<p>There's almost 300 RFCs related to DNS. It can do many things, and some of them are complex. But human error is almost always the root cause.<p>Your inability to configure DNS properly speaks more about you, then the service itself.
Ok, since I’m obviously not nerdy and/or cynical enough to get the joke, what exactly is wrong with DNS? None of the links seem to indicate what exactly the problem with it is.
I was setting up my own mail server the other day and re-realized how long global DNS propagation really takes.<p>I’m in the US so it was almost instantaneous between updating the dns records in domain register any being able to verify the changes with my own rDNS server.<p>But using a UK or NL dns server didn’t immediately pick up those recent changes.<p>Had to wait an additional 48 hrs for global dns propagation.
NTP, BGP, MTU and a lot of other acronyms should be also in the list of not trivial to trace root cause for things that goes from big outages to mysterious malfunctions, specially if there are many parties or servers involved. And the security protocols that are above those and more (DNSSEC, SSL, etc).