Robert Hajime Lanning wrote: > Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > >>> For example, we've blown 6-figures on DNS appliances which have never >>> worked correctly -- when all I'd really like to see is NICtool and bind >>> run competently so that we have split-horizon and reverses all work. >>> Throwing money at the appliance didn't solve any of our problems for us >>> >> How can you blow 6 figures on DNS appliances? How can DNS not work? I have >> only ever seen Bind and AD DNS servers, and I've never seen any complaints >> about any of them ... And I'd be *hard* pressed to spend 6 figures ... I >> could spend 6 figures to buy 20 servers I suppose. >> > > How about 65? > > $EX_WORK has 9 internet connections, with two DNS relays per connection. > Then a minimum of two internal nameservers per site. Some had four (two > HA clusters)... hmm... the wonderfull world of 24hr factories... > > DNS can very easily not work. You just need every site managing their > own, while not listening to the "One Who Knows DNS" TM. > > You should see the horrible mess some zone files are.
Or just turn on paranoid mode on tcp_wrappers and see how many of your faculty/staff complain that they can't get in from their Verizon connection at home. -- --------------- Chris Hoogendyk - O__ ---- Systems Administrator c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments (*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst <[email protected]> --------------- Erdös 4 _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
