[Wylug-discuss] best sig ever

[Geoff Richards]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:18:23PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
>
> >   Documentation -- Does it even exist? Which one of a dozen formats
> >   is it in?  What were they smoking when they wrote it? Have they
> >   even heard of the concept of an illustrative example?
>
> I have to agree here.  It varies much between projects, especially
> with examples.  Some is superb (e.g. PostgreSQL), while much is
> shocking (I had to set up a DHCP and BIND setup with dynamic DNS
> updates today.  The BIND folks don't like to give too much away: two
> trivial example named.conf snippets in the whole manual, and NO
> example zone files at all--how on earth is a newcomer to understand
> it!!).

With DNS you have to by The Book, which is actually very good.
Since there's only one DNS implementation worth bothering with, it's
effectively the manual for BIND.

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