One of my first IT jobs in the early 2000’s was managing customer DNS and e-mail boxes for a service provider. I would often have to kick start global propagation of a domain by adding nonsense to their url and removing it, forcing the domain to start propagation… a foo record.
Now imagine having to check the url to make sure the change worked. Now imagine it was German shit porn. My lunch was ruined on multiple occasions.
That wasn’t even the worst. We had a section of our run book that was all about contacting the FBI if what we found was bad, and sometimes it was.
One of my first IT jobs in the early 2000’s was managing customer DNS and e-mail boxes for a service provider. I would often have to kick start global propagation of a domain by adding nonsense to their url and removing it, forcing the domain to start propagation… a foo record.
Now imagine having to check the url to make sure the change worked. Now imagine it was German shit porn. My lunch was ruined on multiple occasions.
That wasn’t even the worst. We had a section of our run book that was all about contacting the FBI if what we found was bad, and sometimes it was.