R: Operating system recommendation

[Dan]

Simply what I meant by "their reinstall" is going to a new major revision
or someone rootkitted your box. Either would not pose a problem on 
freebsd.

I have redeployed RHEL systems as well and it required a reinstall, the 
upgrade left to many unstabilites in the system, not just the "cruft"
you suggest.

Its clear from that statement you don't run any BSD's and cost your 
company money running RHEL vs Centos or anything free that a competent 
admin could run just as well, perhaps the bit of money your company 
could save you could use towards a ploy for a raise!


Dan.



On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Lightner, Jeff wrote:

> "Linux people and their reinstalls"?!
>
> Somebody has confused Linux with Windows.  We've been running RedHat Eneterprise Linux (RHEL) systems commercially for several years (including our DNS servers) and the only time I "reinstall" is when I'm redeploying a system and/or want to go to a newer major release.   As the prior poster said RedHat is still supports RHEL4 (7 years or more) and RHEL5 (4 years or more) and has now relased RHEL6.
>
> Redeployments don't require a reinstall - I simply do it (as I did for UNIX system) to get rid of the cruft that is invariably left behind by redeployments and in box upgrades from one major release to another.   I'd do the same on BSD if I were still running any of those systems.
>
> Don't confuse hobbyists who like to tinker and reinstall at the drop of a hat to undo their latest experiments with use of Linux in real data centers.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water.com at lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water.com at lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of fddi
> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 4:18 AM
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> Subject: Re: R: Operating system recommendation
>
> bind performances are excellent also on FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
> Myself if I were a big ISP I would use OpenBSD, mainly for a security
> point of view.
>
>
> Riccardo
>
>
> On 3/11/11 9:23 AM, Chiesa Stefano wrote:
>>
>>
>> -----Messaggio originale-----
>> Da: bind-users-bounces+stefano.chiesa=wki.it at lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounces+stefano.chiesa=wki.it at lists.isc.org] Per conto di pollex
>> Inviato: mercoledì 9 marzo 2011 20.52
>> A: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
>> Oggetto: Operating system recommendation
>>
>> Hi, I want to know in your experience what is the best operating
>> system to run bind for an ISP. We currently have Debian for the 5
>> Cache servers and for the 2 Authoritative servers.
>> We have around 111851 success querys in the cache servers and around
>> 7267 zones created in the authoritative servers.
>> We are doing a major re analysis for all the arquitecture and Debian
>> is changing to soon their versions and only have support for 1 version
>> before so I dont know if this is best option
>>
>> Best regards and thanks
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>> Hello.
>> The italian Registration Authorithy, that manages more than 2 millions .it domains, runs theirs BIND dns server on UBUNTU.
>>
>> For futher info you can try to contact them at their email addresses:
>>
>> info at registro.it
>> hostmaster at registro.it
>>
>> http://www.nic.it/?set_language=en
>>
>> Hope this help.
>>
>> Ciao.
>> Stefano.
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