I found Hal's points of the differences between BIND4 and BIND8 most
useful. Also, his suggestions on ways to configure split-horizon DNS were
very interesting. The other DNS stuff was a good review for me, dredging
up memories from the days when I worked with it, oh, way back when. Makes
me want to set up DNS just so I can dink around, good experience for that
future sysadmin job with a ridiculously high salary and bennies too good
to resist :-)
He also discussed the various issues of sendmail, like how versions prior
to 8.9 are promiscuous relays by default, and some resources for avoiding
editing sendmail.cf directly (thank the maker!).
I really liked his practical, how-to approach, he is definitely a good
instructor and willing to talk about specific admin issues. He would
probably even be glad to respond to email. It is good he has a PP version
of the slides, as the lack of the projector was a bit of a distraction.
I unfortunately did not stay for the whole presentation, fading out around
9. I'm sorry I missed the beer and carousing afterwards, but I'm looking
forward to next week's brew pub at the Wild Duck.
Chuck
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Seth Cohn wrote:
> Hal gave a very technical talk... and due to problems with the projector
> (it was locked, and no key), he had to use his laptop display and write
> stuff on whiteboards. The powerpoint presentation can be downloaded from
> http://www.deer-run.com/~hal/corvallis , so check it out (and there are
> notes on the slides).
>
> I enjoyed it, and I've played with sendmail and DNS a bit, so I had some
> concept of what was what and I learned a lot. It was pretty tech though
> and one guy found it over his head.... at least for now.
>
> Afterward, a few of us including John Secrest and Hal and his wife went
> out for beer/icedtea and saw around gabbing for a few hours. Much fun.
>
> Seth
>
>
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Darrin Lajoie wrote:
>
> > I would have loved to go to the Corvallis lecture last night, but had
> > other obligations. I didn't even get to watch survivor. Anyone care to
> > recap? (not survivor, the Linux talk!)
>
