Re: help with BIND SRV
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 08:23:31PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > Most people setting up round-robin DNS type setups for redundancy with > scripts to change things for failover get bit by these things: [...] > - They don't understand that there might be multiple DNS servers between > their top-level and the machine they're servicing (3X and 4X TTL) RFC 1035 specifies in chapter 6.1.3. that requests served from a cache should return a TTL which has been decremented by the amount of seconds in cache, i.e. the TTL "counts down" in the cache. Therefore I consider any caching nameservers that do not do this broken. Are there a significant amount of such servers out there? Though I agree on most of the other points. > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LSB and Debian, Commercial perspective
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:07:31PM +1000, Jason Lim wrote: > Well, I think you'd be in the minority of you don't care if vendors > officially support Debian. From a commercial perspective, what happens if > your tech support department calls up the vendor asking for some > assistance, and as soon as you tell them you're running Debian, they go > all quiet? If they can not provide generic support for GNU/Linux, then we either do it ourselves or go looking for another vendor. Personally I have not seen even slightest hint of this problem so far. Most vendors do not have any official support for any Linux. > And think of the bigger picture. How do you expect a university, a largish > business with hundreds of employees, etc. to select Debian over Redhat (or > one of the so-called "compliant" distros)? Remember most purchases have to > run by non-tech people, so it doesn't matter how good Debian is "behind > the scenes"... if they ask the critical question "is it supported by our > vendors", which do you think they'll choose, Debian or Redhat? I would hope my university department is a good example of this. They choose on technical merits only. They have 500+ Linux workstations and mostly Linux based servers that are used by about 3800 people. They chose Redhat for the base of their distribution because at the time Debian did not have enough support for non-interactive upgrades. I do not think they care about some official vendor support and the non-tech people trust their tech people. I would hate to work for a company where non-tech people did not think I could professionally make technical decisions. The same applies to vendors too. Personally I would much prefer for Debian to continue putting effort on the technical aspects instead of public relations. I do not see any reason why Debian should be the so called winner as long as it works for me. Though this topic seems to be off topic for this list. -- Juha-Matti Tapio, Product Manager, gsm. +358-50-5419230 Kirahvi Domains Ltd, Tekniikantie 14, Espoo, Finland pgpZu6Cf64cfl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: LSB and Debian, Commercial perspective
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:07:31PM +1000, Jason Lim wrote: > Well, I think you'd be in the minority of you don't care if vendors > officially support Debian. From a commercial perspective, what happens if > your tech support department calls up the vendor asking for some > assistance, and as soon as you tell them you're running Debian, they go > all quiet? If they can not provide generic support for GNU/Linux, then we either do it ourselves or go looking for another vendor. Personally I have not seen even slightest hint of this problem so far. Most vendors do not have any official support for any Linux. > And think of the bigger picture. How do you expect a university, a largish > business with hundreds of employees, etc. to select Debian over Redhat (or > one of the so-called "compliant" distros)? Remember most purchases have to > run by non-tech people, so it doesn't matter how good Debian is "behind > the scenes"... if they ask the critical question "is it supported by our > vendors", which do you think they'll choose, Debian or Redhat? I would hope my university department is a good example of this. They choose on technical merits only. They have 500+ Linux workstations and mostly Linux based servers that are used by about 3800 people. They chose Redhat for the base of their distribution because at the time Debian did not have enough support for non-interactive upgrades. I do not think they care about some official vendor support and the non-tech people trust their tech people. I would hate to work for a company where non-tech people did not think I could professionally make technical decisions. The same applies to vendors too. Personally I would much prefer for Debian to continue putting effort on the technical aspects instead of public relations. I do not see any reason why Debian should be the so called winner as long as it works for me. Though this topic seems to be off topic for this list. -- Juha-Matti Tapio, Product Manager, gsm. +358-50-5419230 Kirahvi Domains Ltd, Tekniikantie 14, Espoo, Finland msg06920/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: lynx, news.bbc.co.uk, DNS failures
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 09:59:53AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got users finding that lynx is failing to find news.bbc.co.uk. It > happens most of the time, but not always. Seems to relate to the TTL > on the A record to which news points. Have you checked that they are accessing http://news.bbc.co.uk, not bare news.bbc.co.uk? Lynx seems to assume that anything starting with "news." is by default a NNTP-server. -- Juha-Matti Tapio, tel. +358-50-5419230 Kirahvi Domains Ltd, Tekniikantie 21 C, Espoo, Finland
Re: lynx, news.bbc.co.uk, DNS failures
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 09:59:53AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got users finding that lynx is failing to find news.bbc.co.uk. It > happens most of the time, but not always. Seems to relate to the TTL > on the A record to which news points. Have you checked that they are accessing http://news.bbc.co.uk, not bare news.bbc.co.uk? Lynx seems to assume that anything starting with "news." is by default a NNTP-server. -- Juha-Matti Tapio, tel. +358-50-5419230 Kirahvi Domains Ltd, Tekniikantie 21 C, Espoo, Finland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Qmail+vpopmail with mailing lists
Our mail environment runs several virtual domains on qmail+vpopmail. Now I need to setup mailing lists for a few of these domains. Any suggestions on what software to use? Web-management interface would certainly be nice feature. -- Juha-Matti Tapio, Atk-suunnittelija, puh. 050-5419230 Kirahvi -domainit Oy, Tekniikantie 21 C, Espoo
Qmail+vpopmail with mailing lists
Our mail environment runs several virtual domains on qmail+vpopmail. Now I need to setup mailing lists for a few of these domains. Any suggestions on what software to use? Web-management interface would certainly be nice feature. -- Juha-Matti Tapio, Atk-suunnittelija, puh. 050-5419230 Kirahvi -domainit Oy, Tekniikantie 21 C, Espoo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
