From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 28 9:52:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D9E737B401 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 09:52:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.seattleFenix.net (seattleFenix.net [216.39.145.247]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D5C743E42 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 09:52:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roo@mail.seattleFenix.net) Received: (from roo@localhost) by mail.seattleFenix.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g8SGpTZ36974; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 09:51:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roo) Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 09:51:29 -0700 From: Benjamin Krueger To: Roman Neuhauser Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: named rejecting all kinds of serials Message-ID: <20020928095129.M24391@mail.seattleFenix.net> Reply-To: benjamin@seattleFenix.net References: <19116172.1033221870@tot.in.t-online.fr> <200209281348.g8SDm0aQ085852@lurza.secnetix.de> <20020928151840.GV30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020928151840.GV30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>; from neuhauser@bellavista.cz on Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 05:18:40PM +0200 X-PGP-Key: http://www.macguire.net/benjamin/public_key.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Roman Neuhauser (neuhauser@bellavista.cz) [020928 08:19]: > # olli@secnetix.de / 2002-09-28 15:48:00 +0200: > > Bye the way, RFC 1912 is definitely recommended reading for > > anybody who operates a name server or who is responsible > > for zone files. > > Heh, RFC 1912 (and the others) are definitely recommended reading > for anybody who operates the BIND name server, because these RFCs > are very BIND specific. BIND is not DNS just like Sendmail is not > SMTP. > > Your advice was actually very much to the point, Janine obviously > runs BIND. I just find it hilarious that RFCs are a viable way of > documenting an implementation (as opposed to a principle). > > -- > begin 666 nonexistent.vbs > FreeBSD 4.7-RC > 5:07PM up 11 days, 22 mins, 13 users, load averages: 0.13, 0.06, 0.01 > end Bind is the official reference implementation by which others are measured. It makes plenty of sense to use Bind as the reference in the RFCs. Bind is both principle and implementation. Nothing hilarious about it. -- Benjamin Krueger "Everyone has wings, some folks just don't know what they're for" - B. Banzai ---------------------------------------------------------------- Send mail w/ subject 'send public key' or query for (0x251A4B18) Fingerprint = A642 F299 C1C1 C828 F186 A851 CFF0 7711 251A 4B18 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message