• Ooops@feddit.org
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      Low TTL of dns entries is there to avoid classical Cache Invalidation, so kind of…

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      I keep seeing “networking is hard” come up here. Where is this coming from? Is it IPv6 or something?

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        I started in networks.

        The volume of people who work in technology that don’t understand networking is astonishing. I probably spent more time explaining how a web proxy works than I did actually setting things up.

        Firewall rules? Spells and magic. Routing? Unpossible! DNS? Forget it, I’m going home.

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          People lack the necessary motivation. I explained DHCP, IP, and ports to my kids in like 10 minutes. Because otherwise they couldn’t play Minecraft together.

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          Subnetting and the difference between /8 and /24 or /32 and how you allocate IP addresses between them has always been crazy for me to grasp.

          I feel like if I could finally understand that after 20 years … I’d be happy but no here I am, effectively ignorant to it and looking at networking wizards as true wizards

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        Networking is so easy nowadays. Just plug a network cable into your device and it mostly works out of the box. Don’t you guys remember the bad old times of coax cables and token ring?

        Imagine providing a public WiFi before 1993, even if you ignore the fact that WiFis had a cable back then.