On Sunday, February 9, 2025 11:45:52 AM CET Carsten Strotmann via bind-users wrote: > I've been teaching DNS for over 30 years now, and I have always been uneasy > using the old terms. I've used to "dance around" them, mentioning them once > and using different terms all along in the training. That was not good for > the students, it was confusing. > > I was glad when RFC 8499 (and > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-knodel-terminology ) came > along. It solved a big problem for me personally, and I do not want go back > using the old terms. > > (for context: I'm from Germany) > > Greetings > > Carsten Strotmann
Hi Carsten, I appreciate your input! I like seeing teacher input like that, my own teacher (Gitte, wherever you are) will likely never participate here. It's understandable that you're uneasy with these old terms, and I appreciate that you're able to express that here, including to me. I could've been one of your students too, who would've appreciated your direct takes on it. Whether that is something to be reflected onto tuition as a whole, you know better than I do. But if 8499 and its terminology gives you and your students a basis to build upon, that's wonderful! Perhaps this would be as good of an email as any to express that I once walked the corridors with this teacher, where she bemoaned a colleague of hers that would unnecessarily ask her for advice and then claim it as his own. It left her very disappointed every time, to the point of complaining about it to yours truly. If you want to make it in this industry, _do it yourself_. Don't rely on others to do it for you. Even as a mere student in that course, I saw so many peers leave after the first month because they thought it was little more than LAN parties. That is _not_ what this field is about! It's about network engineering first, entertainment four-hundred-and-fifteenth! Anyway, (forwarded) rants aside.. that's what it's going to be for me today. Vielen dank! -- Met vriendelijke groet, Michael De Roover Mail: i...@nixmagic.com Web: michael.de.roover.eu.org -- Visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
