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It's surprising that people on HackerNews don't seem to understand the basics of how the Internet works.
by developer545 10y ago
It's surprising that people on HackerNews don't seem to understand the basics of how the Internet works.
- el_duderino 10y agoThere are people from all skill levels on this site.
- dsl 10y agoNo its not. Go interview developers sometime.
- codemonkeymike 10y agoThis is all too true. I had people in my 300 level Networking who even after that class didn't know how DNS servers worked (at a high level).
- davidgerard 10y agoI have had that conversation with developers, where I literally was pointing them at the Wikipedia article and quoting bits back at them. Fun times.[citation needed]
- _jomo 10y agoThere are definitely less skilled developers around, but in my experience they also don't read (or even write) on HN.
- albasha 10y agoI am not sure you two are idiots or just trolling. I am referring to the fact that the guy is trying to steal traffic.
- fred256 10y agoSteal traffic from whom?
- beachstartup 10y agouh, okay. the "dn" in "dns" means "domain name", which according to my understanding of the basics of the internet works, is what fast.com and slow.com are.
- beachstartup 10y agodude. the guy owns slow.com, it's his traffic. i'm talking about OWNERSHIP, not the http protocol. please read the original post about 'stealing' traffic. he owns the domain name, he gets to do what he wants with it. _that's how dns works_. i don't know why the hell redirects even got brought up. this entire thread is pedants making shit up so they can be pedantic while ignoring the actual conversation.
- dang 10y agoPlease stop posting uncivil and unsubstantive comments to HN. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11724830 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11724830 and marked it off-topic.