<quote who="Max Wright"> > Hi Jeff; You're partly right about the theory, though my problem is a > messed up named.conf which doesn't allow reverse lookups to work. I am > building a new config from scratch (with the book you mentioned) and will > get back to a working config that way. Yes, Bind is the gold standard, > but it is also the mahogany sideboard of dns. There doesn't seem to be a > better way than to work directly on the .conf file.
I generally try not to be the cantankerous sysadmin traditionalist, but in many cases, deep understanding of the config files is hugely advantageous to your efficiency and effectiveness as a sysadmin. If you're shaving yaks [1] doing sysadmin stuff when you have more interesting goals in mind, then they can be infuriatingly stupid! I do like a bit of DNS-in-LDAP myself. :-) - Jeff [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yak_shaving -- linux.conf.au 2008: Melbourne, Australia http://lca2008.linux.org.au/ "When you're running, you want to run as far as you can, and you can't run further than Australia." - Jacek Koman -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
