Comment on Need help with port forwarding and Cloudflare DNS records
equinox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year agoSure, it’s not helpful, but just because something is out of scope for the original question doesn’t mean you can reiterate objectively false statements.
They probably should have worded it like you did in your first sentence.
brygphilomena@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s just a “well, actually…” response.
Saying it doesn’t do ports is basically just giving the eli5 help the people who are confused usually need. 9/10 the people asking for help are asking about a records or cname records. They want basic DNS help.
When DNS is tought to laymen it’s just translation of a name to an IP, we don’t get into the weeds of rfc xxxx also has DNS provide the configuration of the listening service so the application knows how to communicate. Sometimes it’s best just to lay out the foundation so they can build on that knowledge later.
equinox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
OP already got “basic dns help” in the top-level responses.
Please build that foundation you mentioned out of correct information.
I only take issue with short and wrong general statements where there is really no need to double down on them.
I have no intent to reply any further.
preciouspupp@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
I agree, people come here to learn. Don’t gatekeep information.