There is nothing 'dumb' about DNS. It is a 'sophisticated software to translate human readable addresses to machine-understandable and infinitely routable identifiers'.

Anything can be reduced down to 'dumb' if you try hard enough. Officer, these are just chemicals in a specific quantity and just goes boom when mixed together.

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LtWorf an hour ago | parent [-]

It's as clever as a phonebook. Better now?

	▲	bitpush 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I know what you're getting at, and I agree DNS is simple for folks who hang out in HN but at its core DNS is pretty complicated. Try explaining top level authoritives, ttl, DoH etc etc to a lay person. Yes, it is example.com in, a.b.c.d out but it is anything but simple. My larger point is calling "phone book" doesnt make DNS dumb.