discuss: small & silent... services?
Subject:
Re: small & silent... services?
From:
Christian Schnobrich ####@####.####
Date:
9 Jun 2004 17:30:56 -0000
Message-Id: <1086802253.3987.177.camel@pferd.babel>
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 17:49, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> Here's an example paragraph for DNS, attempting to match your writing style:
>
[...] I like that. Taken.
> >the DNS root server issue IMO is important, as many default
> >installations "just work" many people might leave it at that without
> >even a glance at the docs or other howtos.
>
> Your concern is valid, but that issue seems to be best fixed upstream by
> the package provider, no? Better to fix the software than to be forced to
> educate the entire planet.
I guess that's hardly possible. Setting up Bind (or whatever) with
forwarding requires knowledge of the user's network topology that
presumably is very difficult to gather automagically. Apparently the
maintainers' desire to have it work without need for user intervention
is stronger than being nice to the root servers.
cu,
Schnobs
