From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 27 05:51:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA21836 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 05:51:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id FAA21830 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 05:51:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id OAA21269 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 14:50:53 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id OAA16653; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 14:39:34 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970927143934.ZN26834@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 14:39:34 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: r-cmds and DNS and /etc/host.conf References: <19970927095138.KZ52868@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199709271137.EAA24201@usr04.primenet.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199709271137.EAA24201@usr04.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sep 27, 1997 11:37:40 +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > Besides, i don't understand why you aren't using a local nameserver > > anyway. > > The easy answer to this is that there isn't a Motif-based listbox > setup for the nameserver code, where you just fill in the names you > want, and it does the rest. > > The less easy answer is "it's hard enough to set up that it's not > worth doing for most people". Writing a Motif-based program would take a tremenduous amount of time. Why do it if the basic nameserver setup takes about 10 minutes? (No, not the caching-only server, this one only takes a couple of minutes.) I've seen the listbox-style cr*p that ships with some M$ operating system. The listboxes look nice, are terrible to use (it's a pain in the rear to add all the same standard MX records to each host using this kind of `editor'), but the vendor of that cr*p didn't get the underlying nameserver working correctly at all. (For example, the server never hands out authoritative answers, even if it is for sure an authoritative server.) And finally, using the shicky-micky listbox interface usually screws the nameserver setup at all. No, thanks. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)