DNS software & DJ Bernstein Re: Starting a GPL'ed Blackhole Service to Replace MAPS

2001-07-25 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > Yes I did. I usually consider the options for a DNS server to be: > > > > Windows (bletch) > > Oh, I assumed we were talking Free Software :) Oh we are. I was trying to demonstrate the

Re: Re: Starting a GPL'ed Blackhole Service to Replace MAPS

2001-07-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 03:33:48AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > also sprach Lambrecht Joris (on Tue, 24 Jul 2001 11:40:06PM +): > > Once more felt strongly urged to drop in my personal note. Wouldn't > > it be great if their was some kind of P2P service that would provide > > such a service

Re: Starting a GPL'ed Blackhole Service to Replace MAPS

2001-07-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 04:29:21PM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > I'd have appreciated it if you'd included the text below *before* your > > comment ... I in no way said the choice was between BIND9 or djbdns. > > You said that. > >

Re: Starting a GPL'ed Blackhole Service to Replace MAPS

2001-07-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 11:44:21AM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:00:57PM -0500, Nathan E Norman uttered: > > In my opinion this boils down to a religious issue: some hate Dan > > Bernstein (and by extension his software), and I hate BIND because > > it's a massive bloate

Re: Starting a GPL'ed Blackhole Service to Replace MAPS

2001-07-24 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:00:57PM -0500, Nathan E Norman uttered: > In my opinion this boils down to a religious issue: some hate Dan > Bernstein (and by extension his software), and I hate BIND because > it's a massive bloated buggy pile of crap. I don't think either of us > will convince the o

Re: Re: Starting a GPL'ed Blackhole Service to Replace MAPS

2001-07-24 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Lambrecht Joris (on Tue, 24 Jul 2001 11:40:06PM +): > Once more felt strongly urged to drop in my personal note. Wouldn't > it be great if their was some kind of P2P service that would provide > such a service ? P2P? peer to peer? would you elaborate? for the slow one that i am? m

Re: Starting a GPL'ed Blackhole Service to Replace MAPS

2001-07-24 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I'd have appreciated it if you'd included the text below *before* your > comment ... I in no way said the choice was between BIND9 or djbdns. > You said that. Yes I did. I usually consider

Re: Starting a GPL'ed Blackhole Service to Replace MAPS

2001-07-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:16:57PM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > Isn't that like swatting a fly with a sledgehammer? > > In a way it's either that or use non-free (in the GPL sense) software that > has gratuitous (and sometimes inco

Re: Starting a GPL'ed Blackhole Service to Replace MAPS

2001-07-24 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Isn't that like swatting a fly with a sledgehammer? In a way it's either that or use non-free (in the GPL sense) software that has gratuitous (and sometimes incompatible) extensions to the

Re: Starting a GPL'ed Blackhole Service to Replace MAPS

2001-07-24 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Tue, 24 Jul 2001 01:21:04PM -0500): > Isn't that like swatting a fly with a sledgehammer? I'd at least > check into one of the other free DNS servers before using BIND. i currently run my own rbl zone with about 50,000 entries, and BIND 9, running on a pentium 120

Re: Starting a GPL'ed Blackhole Service to Replace MAPS

2001-07-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 12:20:21PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > also sprach John Bacalle (on Tue, 24 Jul 2001 06:05:36AM -0400): > > Sorry, I vapor locked, I meant the rbldns program: > > > >RE: > > > >rbldns is an IP-address-listing DNS server. It

Re: Starting a GPL'ed Blackhole Service to Replace MAPS

2001-07-24 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach John Bacalle (on Tue, 24 Jul 2001 06:05:36AM -0400): > Sorry, I vapor locked, I meant the rbldns program: > >RE: > >rbldns is an IP-address-listing DNS server. It accepts iterative DNS >queries from hosts around the Internet asking abou

Re: Starting a GPL'ed Blackhole Service to Replace MAPS

2001-07-24 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach John Bacalle (on Tue, 24 Jul 2001 05:14:35AM -0400): > (Your site is not responding.) it's not ready yet. aside, a ping request doesn't mean anything... > Are you planning to GPL the open relay database you will create? > >As you know MAPS took the free submissions users gave the