Dynamic IP addresses suck.  Uberly over­board caching DNS servers suck even more.  Plat­form 7 was appar­ently “out” today, because the schools’ DNS server didn’t think to resolve a CNAME record — of course, the address which the CNAME ref­er­enced was work­ing fine, despite hav­ing changed less than three hours ear­lier, but to actu­ally resolve the CNAME to this would have required a leap of logic which is evi­dently beyond what­ever DNS soft­ware our esteemed IT depart­ment are using.

I’m a tad more irri­tated about it than I should be, per­haps, but really, given the amount of band­width that much extra name res­o­lu­tion requires, it’s some­what insignif­i­cant next to a school full of stu­dents ran­domly down­load­ing crap from all over the place.  Or so you would think.  Or I would think.  Or something.