Community Service

[Kevin Darcy]

Don't forget:

"no, you can't safely edit your dynamically-updated zonefile any more"

"no, there are no good solutions currently for DNS-based
failover/load-balancing"

"use sortlist"

"your firewall is probably blocking it/them"

"sure you can download the root hints every 5 seconds but you don't need
them that frequently"

"you forgot to change your host record"

"those delegations are really screwed up"

"read RFC 2317, make your provider read it, and then both of you talk
about it"

"upgrade to a release with no known root-level exploits, and maybe your
mysterious crashes will disappear" (thankfully, we're getting less of
those posts now)


- Kevin

Simon Waters wrote:

> Barry Finkel wrote:
> >
> > Someone has to politely tell the
> > poster that hidden information means no help on his/her problem.
>
> We could revert to the deprecated method of publishing an FAQ
> frequently - all it needs are;
>
> @       IN      A 1.2.3.4
> www     IN      A 1.2.3.4
> edit httpd.conf
>
> and
>
> "rm `type nslookup` ; man dig"
>
> With maybe some verbiage. Or are most of these people coming in
> by e-mail?
>
> Perhaps we could get the Ruth to add the explanation of the
> first one to the mailing list subscription e-mail.