!!Con West 2019 - Arshia Mufti: How DNS doesn’t work!

Presented at !!Con West 2019: http://bangbangcon.com/west It’s time to answer that age-old question: how does my laptop always know how to load that Harry Potter slashfic on Tumblr? Featuring some old photos, a lot of hand-drawn diagrams, and my favourite sitcom, this talk will dig into how the world’s largest, most redundant, and most distributed phonebook looks like it’s working, but actually secretly fails a lot of the time.