* Steve Greenland said: > 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 Caching nameserver with fast forwarder. Caching locally all the lookups you make is sometimes quite desirable on dial-up connections. > user have BIND installed? (Actually, now that I think about it, why is > there a "task-name-server" package?) For the newbies. > 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. Come on, there was NO problem in this thread about NOT understanding the manpages, just about the DEFAULTS when the bind is installed. > [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? Why not? A friend of mine is using a notebook machine, 'coz he travells a lot. At home it sits in the dock and dials up every hour or so to fetch his mails, the machine is up all the time. There. marek
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