DNS is dangerous knowledge to have.

Yes, it's a wonderful, amazing way to solve many problems.

Unfortunately, once you know how it works, you begin to realize how fragile the underpinnings for a lot of other things are.

Worse, once -other- people realize you know it, you get their well-meaning plans to do things that, yes, -can- work, but really oughtn't to see the light of day.

@munin Remember when people were putting a metric shitton of oob non-standard stuff in TXT records?
@maiyannah I still do that heh