Re: managing DNS

2010-01-06 Thread Alan Johnson
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote: > On 12/30/2009 09:23 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: > > That plus a good provider like dyndns.com looks like > > the answer > > DynDNS is good and local. > I too like DynDNS. I don't know the state of their tools

Re: managing DNS

2010-01-06 Thread Gerry Hull
I' a big fan of dyndns.org; I also use www.zonedit.com, who have been excellent over the past 10 years or so... >From their FAQ: "How can I backup/download my zone files? If you want to back up all ZoneEdit DNS data for a given zone, use named-xfer: named-xfer -z atreju.com -f atreju.com.txt ns

Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-06 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Jeffry Smith wrote: > Could it be the community hasn't stood up because you have to assign > copyright to MySQL/Sun/Oracle, and people don't like giving their work > to a company to run their business without compensation. What, you don't like being an unpaid em

Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-06 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Jeffry Smith wrote: >> Could it be the community hasn't stood up because you have to assign >> copyright to MySQL/Sun/Oracle, and people don't like giving their work >> to a company to run their business without

Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-06 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Jeffry Smith wrote: > Seems that no one else does either.  Amazing how Red Hat can get all > those folks to contribute, but MySQL can't.  Oh, right - Red Hat GPLs > their code, and doesn't (as far as I know) require you to assign > copyright to them.  Amazing how pe

Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-06 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Thomas Charron wrote: >  Woah there nelly.  RedHat was just as bad in some cases.  Take a > look at the eCos situation from several years ago, specifically, the > 'Red Hat eCos Public License'. Yah, and how'd that work out for them? -- Ben

The MySQL petition

2010-01-06 Thread Jeffry Smith
Forgot to send to the list On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Thomas Charron wrote: > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Jeffry Smith wrote: >> Seems that no one else does either.  Amazing how Red Hat can get all >> those folks to contribute, but MySQL can't.  Oh, right - Red Hat GPLs >> their code, a