<div dir="ltr"><div>Lurking on the list, but as my specialisations include DNS and MS infrastructure:<br><br></div><div>I've met very few strongly skilled DNS engineers through my career, I know a few at intermediate level, but none of those favour Microsoft technologies for their primary role. Those active members of this list surpass anyone I have met during my career by a wide margin.<br>
<br>In my experience, there's very little (apparent) demand for DNS as a specialisation on the Microsoft side.<br><br>Personally, I decided I was interested in DNS back in 2000, I've been watching it develop, reading RFCs and generally filing as much as I can into my head. I wrote my own (not quite as capable) equivalent of dig in PowerShell (that is, a debugging resolver) simply because I found it interesting to do so. I spent some time decoding / reverse-engineering the BLOB MS use to store information in AD (dnsRecord and dnsProperty) shortly before the documentation was published because I felt a need to understand it.<br>
<br>In essence, I believe myself to be a good DNS engineer (within the context of my environment) simply because I wished to be so. I'm curious about it and I have no aversion at all to studying RFCs. Alas, this part of my skill-set has never (to by knowledge) helped secure me a job (contract or permanent).<br>
<br></div><div>Chris</div><div><div><div><menu id="menuid" type="context"></menu></div></div></div></div>