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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>,
	Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>,
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Subject: Re: DJBDNS vs. BIND
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Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> wrote:
>
>We in the unix world have a well-founded aversion to storing configuration
>information in binary data stores that can't be accessed via ed(1) when
>the system is in single-user mode.  If we wanted to stuff all the system
>configuration into such a black hole, we could've done it with DBM data-
>bases more than a decade ago, quite easily.

You mean like spwd.db?

Tony.
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