Real-Life IT Horror Stories: The Avoidable DNS Disaster

October 28, 2015 Rich Morrow Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

While acting as vice president of a performance-based Internet marketing company, I oversaw the migration to a new infrastructure, an important part of which involved changing over 300 of our DNS records. Imagine my horror when I discovered that we’d mistakenly misrouted nearly all of those records, taking the entire company down.