The City of DNS

The City of DNS is a place of deep infrastructure. The citizens are the keepers of the phonebook of the universe. They speak in records—A, AAAA, CNAME—mapping names to locations with archaic precision.

The architecture is redundant, distributed across zones to prevent a total collapse. It is a city that few notice until it vanishes, at which point the world stops turning.

"It's always DNS," the repairman sighs.