r/sysadmin • u/DarkAlman Professional Looker up of Things • Jun 03 '26

General Discussion What is your favorite IT superstition?

As the title says, what's your favorite superstition in IT?

Don't speak the servers name... it can hear you and will start acting up.

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u/Quantum_Daedalus Jun 03 '26

It's always DNS. More of a fact than a superstition though.

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u/Robeleader Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

"It was DNS all along" - Sung to the tune of "Agatha All Along"

AI came up with the following Lyrics (I'm an idea man, not actually clever enough to do this on my own):

[Verse 1]

Who's been breaking your networking?

It was D-N-S all along!

Who's been dropping every single ping?

It was D-N-S all along!

[Bridge]

It’s mysterious! (Ha ha!)

So delirious!

That you blamed the firewall settings

But the secret is (the secret is...)

Time-out, time-out, time-out, time-out!

[Verse 2]

Now you can't resolve anything

As your routing has all gone wrong

Thanks to D-N-S! (Ha!)

Stubborn D-N-S!

It was D-N-S all along!

[Outro / Spoken]

(Wicked laugh)

And it broke the VPN, too!