Andy Bradford wrote: > Thus said Lonnie Olson on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:14:41 MDT: > >> Depends on your intended use of it. If you plan to ever include "DNS" >> to your resume you *must* learn to use BIND. In the general IT world >> DNS = BIND. > > Are you claiming that without learning to use BIND one cannot know how > to diagnose DNS problems such as lame servers, authoritative answers, > recursive vs iterative queries, in-bailiwick NS records, what a CNAME > record really means, etc...? If someone included DNS on their resume, I > would fully expect them to know how to diagnose DNS problems, regardless > of what the underlying DNS software is.
Of course not. But given two resumes that claim DNS experience, if one mentions working with BIND (setting up DNS from scratch with BIND even better), and the other has experience with djbdns, BIND will carry much more weight. It is the de facto standard after all. Odds are, though, that someone who's had experience with BIND (real experience that will come out in an interview), has had experience in all of these areas and can answer most if not all of the questions you pose. So yes, BIND knowledge is a good, albeit imperfect, metric. CNAME's are kind of funny aren't they. Most of us probably think of the term (colloquially), "Canonical Name," as being exactly the reverse of what a CNAME is. At least to me. > > Andy /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
