Sometimes it doesn't pay to be Mr. DNS
Ron Hall
thorn at cc.mcgill.ca
Mon Oct 25 17:00:05 UTC 1999
Howdy All!
What can I say? The response given was terse, but it was
correct. As a long time maintainer of DNS systems and
a long time lurker on this list I feel I must add my
3 centimes to the fray....
Mr Liu et al have written a fine book. One that has improved
on since day 1 (I know I have all 3 editions and will buy
the next when it comes available).
Mr Liu does a wonderful service by answering as many questions as
he does (as does Mr Margolin and others). They do it for FREE
(OK Mr Liu gets to plug the book from time-to-time. but it
is a really good book....the de facto, penultimate, absolutely,
indespensible,handy-dandy,leatherman-swiss-army-bucktool-garber
all-in-one guide to doing DNS). You're doing DNS you need this
book.
Of course if you choose to go it alone (sans book) there is always
various relevant RFCs, BOG documentation and apocryphal stories
from the web, but you don't have to have the book. In addition
there is this list. You don't need it either, but it helps.
So you've choices (and this, as they say is a good thing), you
can buy the book, not buy the book, use the list, not use the
list or some combination thereof. The one choice you don't have
is to use a resource and then complaint in the vulgariest of ways
that it did not do what you wanted it to do. Free advice (and
that's what is given here - advice) is not to be shat on, nor are
the people therein who give advice to be abused by the list users.
You don't have to like them, listen to them or even enjoy their
tone of prose, but you also don't get to insult them. That
behaviour belongs back on the grade school playground.
Shame on you.
Who: Ron Hall - + 1 514 398 3718 (thorn at tripod.net)
What: iUnix-Guy, Web-slogger, wizard, casual hero & part-time bartender
When: Some out-of-the-way corner of Time&Space where they serve coffee
Where: Same as above only I'm more grounded
Why: Because I can.
Wote: "Oh what rules these morals be!"
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