I hate you DNS

[PawNtheSandman]

I been studying for 70-291 for a while doing practice tests.

I am sick of DNS. All day DNS DNS DNS.

I been having dreams of DNS.

ARG!!!!

 

[n0cmonkey]

Yeah, but it's kind of important. 😛

Setting up BIND is easy though, how much studying would you reallly have to do?

 

[PawNtheSandman]

It's funny. I'm studying about DNS zones and fowarding etc, but now a days employeers want MCSE for help desk but I seriously doubt that doing help desk I'm ever going to need to configure zones. Isn't that what the big whig IT guys get paid to do?

 

[randal]

The DNS is awesome, though. And usually only the DNS/Sysadmins actually do zone setups & RR configs. I cut my teeth on DNS - once you get it under your belt, you will use the hell out of it forever. Same goes for subnets 🙂

 

[n0cmonkey]

It comes in handy at some point, even if that point isn't now. 😛 I setup bind for fun at home, didn't do anything with it for a year and a half, then had to fiddle with Microsoft's DNS server for work.

 

[BeanDip]

Originally posted by: PawNtheSandman
It's funny. I'm studying about DNS zones and fowarding etc, but now a days employeers want MCSE for help desk but I seriously doubt that doing help desk I'm ever going to need to configure zones. Isn't that what the big whig IT guys get paid to do?

I am always running into strange problems in Microsoft networks that are somehow DNS related to the client. Knowing what the computers are looking for in DNS helps a lot when troubleshooting why they take 5 minutes to log in, etc.

When I made the switch from NT 4 PDC/BDC to 2K ADS I hated Active-Directory because it did not make sense. But I stuck with it and learned the system and now we get along great.

 

[spidey07]

heck, the entire world runs off DNS.

Microsoft active directory is even more dependant.

Live it, love it or fail.

😉