Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 23:39:12 -0500 From: chris@tourneyland.com To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tasks for junior documentation hackers! Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990923233912.0085b620@mail.9netave.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909232353250.312-100000@picnic.mat.net> References: <3.0.6.32.19990923224452.0088d180@mail.9netave.net>
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>Unfortunately, the question you asked, DNS, just isn't a 20 word answer. >Maybe if you'd asked about one tiny part of DNS, perhaps it would have >been, but it's not. If you think this is one big conspiracy against you, >then I *very* reluctantly would tell you that you'll really have to >consider going back to Windows. We're not out to get you, we would like >you to succeed, but the answers are NOT simple, else the book wouldn't be >that fat. So, the book is that fat because it has to be? That doesn't really follow. It presumes that there's no such thing as a book that's longer than it has to be, which is of course false. It also presumes that the DNS/Bind book is targeted for people like me who just want a small network, which I don't believe it is - my understanding is it's an exhaustive treatment of DNS/Bind. Now, a person running an ISP or admining a whole Class B with a zillion subnets has to know a lot more than me. They probably need an exhuastive book. Do I? I'm not a DNS expert, but I don't really buy that what I need to know about DNS could fill a 500 book. 50? 100? 150? Now we're talking. Let me put it another way . . . you wanna bet me $50 I can write up everything a guy like me needs to know to do his own DNS serving, in 100 pages? Now THAT sounds like fun. - Chris P.S. A lot of your response was sort of strange. I don't recall claiming there's some sort of conspiracy, I don't remember asking for a twenty word answer, and that "go back to Windows" stuff is just silly. I *do* think that Unix's biggest problem is its immeasurable historical and cultural baggage, but heck, everyone knows that. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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