Subj : proposed new nodelist
To : Peter Knapper
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Mon Jul 22 2002 07:42 am
Hi Peter.
21-Jul-02 08:41:36, Peter Knapper wrote to Johannes Lundberg
PK> Yes that is another way, however somewhere among all this we get
PK> back into the age old argument within Fidonet members that using a
PK> single service to manage such a task is putting all the eggs in
PK> one basket and taking the purpose for it being a hobby out of the
PK> hands of the users. Hence why distributing the info within DNS,
PK> rather than concentrating it in a few servers, makes good sense
PK> from several perspectives
yeah, BIND 9 was just announced last week.
BIND = Berkley Internet Name Daemon, it's a free (no charge, open source)
DNS, with all sorts of neat featrures, from the peouple at UCB (Unversity of
California, Berkley).
So pretty much any linux system (or BSD) can put up a cutting edge DNS
service...
