[Novalug] What's the RFC, Kenneth?

Peter Larsen peter@peterlarsen.org
Wed Jun 3 22:31:18 EDT 2015


On 06/03/2015 10:24 PM, James Ewing Cottrell, III via Novalug wrote:
> Seriously? You are gonna throw 1035 at me? CAN YOU ACTUALLY READ?!?
>
> As for Diversity, I consider that a BAD thing:

How is the weather on your planet?

> Bind is THE Name Server
> Sendmail is THE Mailer
> Bash is THE Shell
> Make is THE Program Builder
> Vi and Emacs are THE Editors
>
> OK, by that kind of thinking Nothing New will ever be written, so there has to be a Balance.
>
> OTOH, I don't need 37 Programs to do the same thing. I hate it when I have to throw All My Expertise Away and become a Novice in the Fad-of-the-Month program.
>
> JIM
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Xavier Belanger" <firemountain@belanger.fr>
> To: "James Ewing Cottrell, III" <jecottrell3@comcast.net>
> Cc: "James Ewing Cottrell, III via Novalug" <novalug@firemountain.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2015 9:30:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [Novalug] What's the RFC, Kenneth?
>
> Hi,
>
>> I know HOW to do it....I want to know what the RFC that describes it.
> You can check RFC 1035:
>
>  [ http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt ]
>
> "$ORIGIN is followed by a domain name, and resets the current
> origin for relative domain names to the stated name."
>  
>> P.S. Any unless you run a Root or TLD name server, or are named
>> Dan Bernstein, why *wouldn't* you be running BIND?
> Diversity. It's always good to have different implementations
> for the same standards. However, I have always run BIND for
> authoritative servers, since it's provided by default with
> many distributions (for non-authoritative servers, Unbound
> is a good alternative).
>
> Sincerely.


-- 
Regards
  Peter Larsen




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