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That's part of what bothers me about this whole story--it says they were running BIND, which configs on text files for goodness sake. These critical records we
by drummojg 6y ago
That's part of what bothers me about this whole story--it says they were running BIND, which configs on text files for goodness sake. These critical records were tiny and could fit anywhere & transfer in the blink of an eye. That such a simple thing is buried under & dependent upon an entire complex and untested/maintained DR plan is mind-boggling.
- capableweb 6y ago> That such a simple thing is buried under & dependent upon an entire complex and untested/maintained DR plan is mind-boggling I find this to pretty common in many setups where the engineers don't focus on simplicity and removing layers of abstraction. If the workforce is young and inexperienced, over-engineering tends to happen everywhere and you end with situations like this. I have seen worse in my years in the industry, that's for sure.