On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org> wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Tom H wrote: >> >> If incompetent is equivalent to the Windows DNS admins saying "this is >> a Unix problem", then yes... > > Well, it is equivalent to leaking trash to AS112 and the root zone, > regardless of platform. > > What you describe is even worse: being that clueless about DNS when > you're an "DNS admin" is outright negligence.
I couldn't agree more. This happened in the first week of a four-week contract so I said that the obvious solution was to create a reverse zone and everyone told me to shut up. We just edited "nsswitch.conf" and removed "dns" from the "hosts" line. TOTALLY OT: As far as the senior Windows sysadmin was concerned, it was the problem of "toy OSs" and he wasn't willing to set up a reverse zone for Solaris and Linux. He was very good as a Windows admin and had the full backing of the IT manager and deputy IT manager. The two Solaris/Linux admins owed their jobs to the managers (one was Sun hardware engineer and a friend of the deputy manager and the other was a Windows admin and friend of the manager; they were sent on Solaris training and given these jobs; on my first day there, a desktop support guy asked them what the difference between a soft and a hard link was and they couldn't answer). They weren't in a position to put their foot down in spite of the stupidity of the decision. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=SzeUJfNaLpt_iP-vDm=avgpmtnbe7srriutjy8r3z2...@mail.gmail.com
