Redundant domain override pages in Unbound?

[skatopn]

Domain Overrides are now considered deprecated, you should only use Query Forwarding / DNS over TLS for new setups. That's actually documented, but I agree that a hint in the UI wouldn't hurt. Changing the name to "Domain Overrides (legacy)" might be sufficient. Thoughts?

Cheers
Maurice

I think it is always a good idea to imagine your future self at 3AM, tired and maybe a bit drunk and some years down the line, trying to figure out what the config is trying to achieve - write help that would be so obvious to you in that state it would be entirely self evident...or maybe just assume the person reading it is a complete novice.

That is: to someone who has never designed, or even configured, a DNS system and who ONLY knows that DNS maps names to addresses (and knows nothing else) - what does "Domain Override" mean to that person?

[franco]

That term was invented probably a over a decade ago by the poor soul working on the first Unbound GUI integration back when it wasn't even cool. ;)


Cheers,
Franco

[Maurice]

I strongly recommend sobriety when working on critical infrastructure. ;)
Does the UI and documentation leave room for improvements? Sure. But should it replace "My first illustrated book on basic networking concepts for novices"? Definitely not. Keep in mind that this is not primarily a consumer product and the target audience are mostly professionals.

[skatopn]

I strongly recommend sobriety when working on critical infrastructure. ;)
Does the UI and documentation leave room for improvements? Sure. But should it replace "My first illustrated book on basic networking concepts for novices"? Definitely not. Keep in mind that this is not primarily a consumer product and the target audience are mostly professionals.

:D
Haha, yes, I agree sobriety should be a requirement at all times on the job...but...you know as well as I there are always exceptions to every rule ;)

Even professionals in one discipline can be novices in another related discipline. I am amazed at how many network engineers AND software engineers do not know DNS very well, at least not well enough to build a DNS server if they had to. I am of the opinion that terminology should always be as obvious to the uninitiated as possible, whatever the field.