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[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I started in networks.

The volume of people who work in technology that don't understand networking is astonishing. I probably spent more time explaining how a web proxy works than I did actually setting things up.

Firewall rules? Spells and magic. Routing? Unpossible! DNS? Forget it, I'm going home.

[–] aquovie@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 month ago

People lack the necessary motivation. I explained DHCP, IP, and ports to my kids in like 10 minutes. Because otherwise they couldn't play Minecraft together.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

It's always DNS...

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Subnetting and the difference between /8 and /24 or /32 and how you allocate IP addresses between them has always been crazy for me to grasp.

I feel like if I could finally understand that after 20 years … I’d be happy but no here I am, effectively ignorant to it and looking at networking wizards as true wizards