Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!news From: ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Daniel Ehrlich) Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix Subject: Re: Anyone willing to do a Name Server BOF? Message-ID: <1989Dec20.193018.1856@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> Date: 20 Dec 89 19:30:18 GMT References: <1989Dec19.211631.25651@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> Sender: news@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Computer Science Department, Penn State University Lines: 25 In-Reply-To: karl@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu's message of 19 Dec 89 21:56:49 GMT In article karl@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes: Karl> ehrlich@cs.psu.edu writes: Karl> Would some kind Name Server Guru be willing to do a BOF at the Winter Karl> USENIX? Karl> I'm almost afraid to ask: What would you intend to discuss at such a Karl> BOF? No, I'm not asking the question facetiously. Swap favors for Karl> secondary backup? Argue over the complexity of named zone files and Karl> the difficulty in selecting suitable SOA time values? Tell horror Karl> stories of the time you left out the trailing `.' from your Karl> in-addr.arpa files? All of the above? None of the above? How about something that delves into the depths of BIND? I have been beating my head against the wall the last week or so, and I am sure what I am trying to do is intuitively obvious to a guru. Plus all of the topics you have listed. ;-) -- Dan Ehrlich Quote of the month: "And I have quite a bit of experience on mainframes. I learned C, Pascal, and Assembler on various mainframes, including PDPs, VAXen, an IBM AS/9000." -- Charles M Hannum II