it's always DNS

networkingops culture

The troubleshooting proverb that whatever the symptom, the root cause will turn out to be DNS.

Half joke, half statistics: name resolution touches everything, fails in creative ways, and hides behind symptoms that look like anything else. The haiku version is canon: it's not DNS - there's no way it's DNS - it was DNS.

Also known as: it was DNS

← All glossary entries