Oh, and far be it for me to mention that it's the way one can get down
under the hood, away from a bloated GUI, and tinker with the engine to
tune it to perfection <smirk>...
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Aaron C. Springer wrote:
> I guess you are comparing UNIX to a horse and buggy...
>
> It is not a horse and buggy..it is a 60s era muscle car that has
> been lovingly restored and rebuilt to the point that even the latest "new"
> sports car is a piece of .... compared to it..
>
> acs
>
>
>
> On 15-Mar-00 Brian Steele wrote:
> >> Brian Steele wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hi everyone:
> >> >
> >> > Got a call from another sysadmin this morning. He said that our DNS
> > server
> >> > (NT4/SP6a/MS-DNS) was flooding his DNS server (Ultrix?/BIND 8) with
> > queries.
> >> > He produced this snippet of his log file as proof:
> >> >
> >>
> >> Solution: Replace the NT machine with a machine running a real
> >> operating system, ie (Solaris7/Sparc), (Alpha/Tru64),
> >> (Intel/OpenBSD/FreeBSD), (Intel/Linux). Then reformat the NT box and
> >> send the NT distribution material back to Redmond with a letter
> >> demanding a refund.
> >> Sorry, couldn't keep that one to myself :-)
> >
> > Will do...
> >
> > ...just as soon as I trade in my trusty car for a horse-and-carriage.
> > Damned car is too expensive to run, and too complex for me to figure out.
> >
> > Sorry, couldn't keep that one to myself either :-)
> >
> > Seriously, I would like to know what's going on here. I'm clueless about
> > the format of his logs, but the entries seem to suggest that the requests
> > are originating from his server, not mine...
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
> >
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