Re: To the bind maintainer

[Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org>]

On 21-Jan-00, 21:32 (CST), Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> wrote: 
> For every person who really wants a question in the postinst to choose an 
> option like this, there exists a person for whom interactivity in the postinst
> is intensely frustrating.  

That would be me. :-)

Actually, I'm kinda confused about all this talk about running BIND on
personal machines (notebooks?) and by newbies. Why on earth would you
run BIND on a notebook[1]? Why on earth would a (relatively) new Linux
user have BIND installed? (Actually, now that I think about it, why is
there a "task-name-server" package?)

This is going to sound condescending, but if you aren't capable of
reading a few man pages and modifying a few config files, then you
aren't capable of maintaining a name server.

Steve

[1] Assuming you're using it *as* a notebook, not a notebook sitting
in one spot full-time, just because you had it laying around when
you needed a new nameserver box. But in that case it wouldn't have
interfaces going up and down all the time, would it?

Steve

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