Lp Best regards.
On Mar 12, 2011, at 2:30 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <jlight...@water.com> wrote: > I didn't make this a personal attack so don't know why you felt it > necessary to go that route. However, since you did, it is clear > from your comments you are BSD fan boy and will say whatever you > can, including outright fabrications to make your position seem more > valid than those of others. I've not seen an OS yet that couldn't > be rootkitted and implying that RHEL is some how more susceptible to > that and that BSD is somehow immune to that is completely > disingenuous. > > Many organizations choose to use commercial variants of Linux > specifically because they prefer to have an external support entity > available. If you had to reinstall RHEL to perform a simple > upgrade that says more about your lack of experience with the > platform than it does with the platform itself. In my 20 years of > Systems Administration experience I've often made suggestions some > heeded and some ignored but always knew I wasn't the tail that wags > the dog. You apparently think you are in your organization so > congrats on that. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan [mailto:d...@sunsaturn.com] > Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 12:33 PM > To: Lightner, Jeff > Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org > Subject: RE: R: Operating system recommendation > > > Simply what I meant by "their reinstall" is going to a new major > revision > or someone rootkitted your box. Either would not pose a problem on > freebsd. > > I have redeployed RHEL systems as well and it required a reinstall, > the > upgrade left to many unstabilites in the system, not just the "cruft" > you suggest. > > Its clear from that statement you don't run any BSD's and cost your > company money running RHEL vs Centos or anything free that a competent > admin could run just as well, perhaps the bit of money your company > could save you could use towards a ploy for a raise! > > > Dan. > > > > On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Lightner, Jeff wrote: > >> "Linux people and their reinstalls"?! >> >> Somebody has confused Linux with Windows. We've been running >> RedHat Eneterprise Linux (RHEL) systems commercially for several >> years (including our DNS servers) and the only time I "reinstall" >> is when I'm redeploying a system and/or want to go to a newer major >> release. As the prior poster said RedHat is still supports RHEL4 >> (7 years or more) and RHEL5 (4 years or more) and has now relased >> RHEL6. >> >> Redeployments don't require a reinstall - I simply do it (as I did >> for UNIX system) to get rid of the cruft that is invariably left >> behind by redeployments and in box upgrades from one major release >> to another. I'd do the same on BSD if I were still running any of >> those systems. >> >> Don't confuse hobbyists who like to tinker and reinstall at the >> drop of a hat to undo their latest experiments with use of Linux in >> real data centers. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water....@lists.isc.org >> [mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water....@lists.isc.org] On >> Behalf Of fddi >> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 4:18 AM >> To: bind-users@lists.isc.org >> Subject: Re: R: Operating system recommendation >> >> bind performances are excellent also on FreeBSD and OpenBSD. >> Myself if I were a big ISP I would use OpenBSD, mainly for a security >> point of view. >> >> >> Riccardo >> >> >> On 3/11/11 9:23 AM, Chiesa Stefano wrote: >>> >>> >>> -----Messaggio originale----- >>> Da: bind-users-bounces+stefano.chiesa=wki...@lists.isc.org >>> [mailto:bind-users-bounces+stefano.chiesa=wki...@lists.isc.org] >>> Per conto di pollex >>> Inviato: mercoledì 9 marzo 2011 20.52 >>> A: comp-protocols-dns-b...@isc.org >>> Oggetto: Operating system recommendation >>> >>> Hi, I want to know in your experience what is the best operating >>> system to run bind for an ISP. We currently have Debian for the 5 >>> Cache servers and for the 2 Authoritative servers. >>> We have around 111851 success querys in the cache servers and around >>> 7267 zones created in the authoritative servers. >>> We are doing a major re analysis for all the arquitecture and Debian >>> is changing to soon their versions and only have support for 1 >>> version >>> before so I dont know if this is best option >>> >>> Best regards and thanks >>> _______________________________________________ >>> bind-users mailing list >>> bind-users@lists.isc.org >>> https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users >>> >>> >>> Hello. >>> The italian Registration Authorithy, that manages more than 2 >>> millions .it domains, runs theirs BIND dns server on UBUNTU. >>> >>> For futher info you can try to contact them at their email >>> addresses: >>> >>> i...@registro.it >>> hostmas...@registro.it >>> >>> http://www.nic.it/?set_language=en >>> >>> Hope this help. >>> >>> Ciao. >>> Stefano. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> bind-users mailing list >>> bind-users@lists.isc.org >>> https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users >> >> _______________________________________________ >> bind-users mailing list >> bind-users@lists.isc.org >> https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users >> >> Proud partner. 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