From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 20 09:07:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA17859 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 09:07:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA17832 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 09:07:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id SAA17981 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 18:07:11 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA06894 for chat@freebsd.org; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 18:07:11 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id RAA16795 for chat@freebsd.org; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 17:33:21 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611201633.RAA16795@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: benchmark To: chat@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 17:33:21 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9611200926.AA03350@wavehh.hanse.de> from Martin Cracauer at "Nov 20, 96 10:26:40 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Martin Cracauer wrote: While i basically agree with you... > >A customer of mine that I do consulting for is moving some of their services > >like mail, web, and DNS from an ISP to their site. They plan to do all of > >these on NT servers (even DNS -- bleh!). > > First of all, DNS on NT is said to be nothing else than completly > broken. I can't confirm this. We've been evaluation their DNS server recently since one of our customers went to DNS, and they already have at least one NT server at each of their locations. Admittedly, we've only tested it with a fairly small database by now. At least, they didn't change the database file format, so you're able to hand-edit the files if it scares you too much to click a thousand buttons in order to globally add yet another MX to all your mail hosts in the zone. The worst of this beast was as is everything in this class of operating system: i had to get up from my chair, and walk over to the console of that machine in order to add a new entry into their DNS database. Fortunately, the machine is only 20 meters away from me. If it were 20 km, i would have been embarrased (since i've been getting used to maintain machines throughout the globe without the need of a car or plane). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)