And of course VMWare is 80% owned by EMC: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2010/03/03/emc_to_maintain_80_vmware_stake/
-----Original Message----- From: Dale Kiefling [mailto:dale.kiefl...@cbsinteractive.com] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 1:46 PM To: Lightner, Jeff Cc: dhottin...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us; bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: repository for zone files It now looks like VMWare may eventually end up owning SUSE: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1831&tag=nl.e040 Dale On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Lightner, Jeff <jlight...@water.com> wrote: > Technical note: I said "Netware" not "Novell". As you note Novell is > now doing SuSE Linux. > > I believe there are still people using Netware but then again there are > probably still people using CP/M somewhere. :-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water....@lists.isc.org > [mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water....@lists.isc.org] On Behalf > Of dhottin...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us > Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 10:24 AM > To: bind-users@lists.isc.org > Subject: RE: repository for zone files > > Quoting "Lightner, Jeff" <jlight...@water.com>: > >> Up until Bill came out with NT with the stated intention of killing > UNIX >> I was somewhat of an M$ fan (over Apple that is). All he really >> succeeded in killing was Netware. Now years later Apple is running a >> UNIX based OS - go figure. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water....@lists.isc.org >> [mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water....@lists.isc.org] On > Behalf >> Of Stewart Dean >> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 8:48 AM >> To: bind-users@lists.isc.org >> Subject: Re: repository for zone files >> >> My thanks to everyone that answered for their wit and wisdom, both of >> which are >> good to find when joining a list. /var/named it is. >> >>> its UNIX fragmentation all over again. 8) >> >> <grin> Remember when Windows NT was begun as the Great White Hope > that >> would >> have all the functionality (and more!) of Unix, but would have a > Common >> Flag and >> Parm Convention so you wouldn't have to learn a different one for > every >> different command? >> >> >> On 9/23/2010 4:14 PM, Greg Whynott wrote: >>> they (the distro maintainers) could not agree to put anything in the >> same place if the worlds sanity depended on it. >>> >>> /var/named >>> /srv/bind >>> /etc/bind >>> /var/lib/named >>> /usr/local/named >>> >>> it's all over the place. myself i just create links from /var/named >> (which is where I think it was found on most commercial UNIX's I've >> used, IRIX admin here..) to wherever they decided to stick it. That >> being said, if you build it from source (which I'd be inclined to do > if >> not using a linux wiht a support contract), you can pass the path to >> configure and place it anywhere you wish with zero functionally loss. >>> >>> its a bunch of "my way makes sense, i'll pee in this corner, its >> mine now). >>> >>> its UNIX fragmentation all over again. 8) >>> >>> >>> <rant off, sorry> >>> -g >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sep 23, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Michael Sinatra wrote: >>> >>>> On 09/23/10 12:53, Stewart Dean wrote: >>>>> On AIX, I'm used to /etc/dns. CentOS seems to place in /var/named. >> Is >>>>> there any blessed, bestofallpossibleworlds place for the zone > files. >> I'm >>>>> moving our DNS from from AIX to CentOS/Fedora. I'm inclined to >> create >>>>> the /etc/dns dir but maybe it'd be better to put it in >>>>> /var/named.....Comments, brickbats? >>>> I have always found it to be a good idea to do what the OS wants. >> Many >>>> OSes now are set up to run bind in a chroot jail (a good thing), but >>>> this requires a specific directory structure. If your OS has > already >>>> set that up (and if the startup scripts work with that structure), >> then >>>> it's best to keep them that way. Probably the ideal thing to do is >> use >>>> the OS defaults and then symlink your previous directory structure > to >>>> the OS defaults as necessary to maintain compatibility with your >>>> in-house scripts and processes. >>>> >>>> michael >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> bind-users mailing list >>>> bind-users@lists.isc.org >>>> https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users >> >> -- >> "One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human > being." >> - May >> Sarton >> Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Bard College, New York 12504 >> sd...@bard.edu >> voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035 >> _______________________________________________ >> bind-users mailing list >> bind-users@lists.isc.org >> https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users >> >> Proud partner. Susan G. 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