A whinge about DNS and other things

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.