Automating DNS/DHCP [ was Re: MAC addresses, hostnames, and DHCP ]

[Tom Buskey]

On 12/8/05, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 8, 2005, at 10:41, Paul Lussier wrote:
>
> > djb has very different ideas about a lot of things, including
> > standards :)
>
> The root cause of djb's problems are his rejection of the Cathedral and
> Bazaar model.  He's all about the Cathedral (one might say Ivory Tower)
> and eschews the Bazaar.  His code is well done, but when the software
> doesn't do this thing or that thing you need and you're faced with
> using multiple sometimes-incompatible 3rd party patches which aren't
> guaranteed to be available for the next release [background: he rarely,
> if ever, accepts patches] - well, it's hard to base anything serious on
> it, so you just go use bind and postfix.



There are alot of issues with his software.  There are good ideas in them
too.  The security is excellent.  There's value in being different
sometimes.

He's also got copyrights that restrict redistribution.

I ran into djbdns at a security company.  They also used qmail outside the
firewall and postfix inside.



--
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad
measures.
  - Daniel Webster
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