[LinuxUsers] Paging Gregg Rawson

[Roger E. Rustad, Jr]

Ok, I'll bite...

Michael Sokolov wrote:
>> 3:   Reverse DNS for 208.221.139.1 - Failed!
> 
> That's the piece of **** known as BIND.  I can't wait to replace it with
> MSDNS (Michael Sokolov's Domain Name Server), my own DNS server
> implementation written 100% by me 100% from scratch, running under
> 4.3BSD-Quasijarus and strictly implementing the letter of RFC 1035.

In my opinion, RFCs are strong suggestions and intended for best 
practice (e.g. I do not follow all of them with MTAs I manage, 
particularly Exchange servers and MX backups).  What compelling reason 
do you have for implementing this particular RFC?  Why RFC 1035 over, 
say, this one?

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc527

>> Add that task to the TBD consultant's TODO list.
> 
> Nope.  Finishing MSDNS is one of those gazillion tasks that must be done
> by me and may not be outsourced.  Besides, being part of the core
> infrastructure it runs on our 4.3BSD-Quasijarus VAXen, not on pee sea
> hardware, and I would never let anyone else near those even if someone
> does claim to be old enough to know this stuff.

Ok, I must have missed something.  You're missing a PTR record (I'm 
guessing) on your MTA, and the remote MTA doesn't like it (with good 
reason).  And we're now we're talking about VAX, rewriting a new flavor 
of DNS, and non "pee sea hardware"?

Please help us understand here.