So I've stopped telling people that, and instead I put a huge amount of work into trying to understand _why_ people find certain things hard and work to help remove some of those barriers. Like, I've been confused about this for years, and you're telling me that, no, actually it's easy? Not that helpful! And I kind of get it! I love DNS! I think it is surprisingly simple in many ways, and I've written about that a lot, for example in which shows you how to implement a toy DNS resolver from scratch in some pretty simple Python code.īut over the years I've learned that "no, it's easy to learn!", instead of coming off as an encouraging comment ("you can do it!"), often gets received as "no, it's not hard, actually the problem is that you're dumb". I also used to think that "no, actually, it's easy!" was an encouraging response to "this is hard to learn". It took me many years to feel totally comfortable debugging DNS problems, and I wrote this post to explain why I think it was hard for me. Hello! I wrote this post and I have a couple of things to say about this "DNS is not actually hard" take.
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