Time and time again, it has been shown that there is huge value in diversity. If you were to invest a million dollars in Africa, it most places you would get a million dollars' worth of grass huts. If you invest a million dollars in computer-programmer-designed software, most of what you will get is a million dollars of incremental changes that fit easily into the existing system.
Most people on this list denigrate Microsoft Server with its built-in DNS, but the facts are that if you spin up a new Microsoft Server installation, in about an hour you have a completely configured, ready-to-go domain name server, and few if any problems thereafter. Great success and huge amounts of money have come to people who adopted a new perspective on, and solved problems in, a particular industry. For example, In the late 1800s, Rockefeller et al. made a lot of money by creating the Standard Oil Company, Inc. in the United States by combining a large number of smaller oil drillers and refiners. Although Standard Oil was eventually broken up because of antitrust sentiment, at the time it was created it had the support of the American people because many of the displaced operators were in fact just creating venues for horrific industrial accidents. For a time, General Motors made a great deal of money manufacturing railroad locomotives using production line techniques rather than as a job shop. Baldwin Locomotive went to its grave after designing and building some of the finest and most efficient steam machines that ever existed, but despite strenuous efforts it never could get over its job shop mentality. After the Second World War American railroads were running worn-out equipment on beat up rails due to the inability to purchase new equipment and spare parts during the war. Despite the railroads' monumental contribution to the war effort there was no enthusiasm within the government for refurbishing the industry due to the railroads' perceived lousy safety record, Eisenhower's and others' desires to re-create the German autobahn system in the United States, and the anticipated expansion of the airlines. Traditionally, locomotives were sold to railroads based on the railroads' Chief Engineers' knowledge of what motive power his railroad needed. General Electric recognized that the railroads were essentially broke and sent out its executives to play golf with the railroads' financial executives and thus sold a huge number of diesel electric locomotives on terms that the railroads could afford. In its original conception, Sam Walton created Wal-Mart stores as an integration of modern IT with retailing. "As of January 31, 2019, Walmart has 11,348 stores and clubs in 27 countries ...." (Wikipedia) What would happen if a marketing survey were sent to executives who saw and paid the bills for domain name service on the Internet? What would happen if an expert, academic or otherwise, were engaged to design a user interface for an ideal domain name system? Day in and day out the vast majority of messages that appear on this bind list server are about configuration issues. Isn't it time to get a new perspective on solving these problems? Charles Elliott -----Original Message----- From: bind-users [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of @lbutlr Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2019 7:48 PM To: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: allow-update in global options (was Re: bind and certbot with dns-challenge) On 17 Mar 2019, at 15:52, Grant Taylor via bind-users <bind-users@lists.isc.org> wrote: > If the consensus is that the new behavior is desired, I would hope ~> expect for a survey of the BIND user community like I've seen in the past about removing / significantly altering functionality. I disagree. I'd prefer the best decision be made by consensus of the contributors rather than the community at large. The community includes a lot of people with a barely functioning understanding of DNS and no basis in knowledge for making a qualified decision as to if this is a good thing or not. I know this, because this describes me (and everyone I've met in person who has to deal with DNS) pretty accurately. -- "I program Windows - of course it isn't safe." - Meski _____________________________________________ __ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-u sers to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-u sers _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users