[Gllug] re: 'djb warning'

Simon A. Boggis simon at dcs.qmul.ac.uk
Wed Nov 12 03:52:27 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 01:09, Rich Walker wrote:
> "Simon A. Boggis" <simon at dcs.qmul.ac.uk> writes:
[snip]
> I think that's "guaranteed" as in "no-one who complains gets out of here
> alive", rather than "guaranteed" as in "there are no outstanding
> release-critical bugs".

Absolutely (:

I rather got the impression that it was a case of "Works for Me (tm)",
which is probably fine, but since more people run it in the "standard"
[1] configuration, and I didn't actually give a hoot I took the safer
option.

> > I've stuck with the latter, since the dns servers/caches are quite
> > mission critical.
> 
> So you use . . . leaves the discussion well alone . . . 

LOL .. indeed.

My experience with our dnscache/tinydns setup is that it has worked well
so far [2] for our (small) site - thus achieving a desirable low score
on my Bother-O-Meter (:

Simon

[1] i.e. very strange and non-standard paths. 
[2] for the customarily limited values of "worked", "well" and "so far".


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