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Happy Birthday, Dear DNS
Shloka writes with a snippet from Wired News: "Twenty years ago Monday, two computer scientists at the University of Southern California created a key component essential to the modern Internet. Jon Postel and Paul Mockapetris ran the first successful test of the automated domain name system, or DNS..."
Seems like just recently, it was the birthday of the "internet" among many other things, birthday season?
So all I'm gonna say is happy birthday. Thats the point, no? ;-)
I thought Al Gore invented DNS. No?
You'll have that sometimes...
And real soon now they are expected to have a DNS which is ready for use in the enterprise.
Amazing, well fsck.me!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
"The system was built to expand but not necessarily to be secure,"
Holy tapdancing Christ, really?
The coolest voice ever.
Back when these guys were creating early Internet technologies, they were called geeks. Now, they're recognized as pioneers of the Internet. Too bad there're getting to old for the girls to notice.
for i in a b c d e f g h i j k m
do
dig @${i}.root-servers.net *.com axfr
done
Carousel is a lie!
the automated domain name system, or DNS...
AUTOMATED domain name system? So I DON'T have to manually add every host on the Internet to my HOSTS file?
Someone could have told me this a lot sooner!
Happy birthday, DNS! I wasn't sure how else to celebrate, so:
-bash-2.05b$ nslookup happy.com
Server: dnsr01-eth0.nyc01.dsl.net
Address: 216.175.203.50
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: happy.com
Address: 64.45.128.45
-bash-2.05b$ nslookup birthday.com
Server: dnsr01-eth0.nyc01.dsl.net
Address: 216.175.203.50
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: birthday.com
Address: 207.5.97.78
-bash-2.05b$ nslookup dns.com
Server: dnsr01-eth0.nyc01.dsl.net
Address: 216.175.203.50
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: dns.com
Address: 127.0.0.1
*Shrug* =)
when some ham-fingered PFY typed in 'sxe.com'
first successful test of the automated domain name system, or DNS...
Conventional wisdom is that we have yet to witness such a thing.
SCO says it owns DNS and will sue everyone on the internet for using it because it violates their intellectual property rights. They have detected what appears to be similar code spread across any damn computer connected to the internet.
More fake news at 11...
Re: Infringements of HAPPY BIRTHDAY Copyrights and Trademarks
I write as attorney for the Recording Industry Association of America ("RIAA").
As you are, no doubt, aware, RIAA owns all of the rights to the musical composition entitled HAPPY BIRTHDAY and all derivatives, including HOW OLD ARE YOU NOW, and the YOU SMELL LIKE A MONKEY remix (collectively the "HAPPY BIRTHDAY Properties"). These rights are protected by numerous copyrights trademarks in both the compositions themselves and the lyrics, sheet music, and other elements appearing in those compositions.
We have recently learned that you have posted various elements of the HAPPY BIRTHDAY Properties on your site at slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/22/172247. For example, we refer to your posting entitled "Happy Birthday, Dear DNS" (the "Synopsis"). Your posting of these items is an infringement of RIAA's rights in the HAPPY BIRTHDAY Properties.
Based upon the foregoing, we hereby demand that your confirm to us in writing within ten days of receipt of this letter that: (i) you have removed all infringing materials from your site, including the aforementioned Synopsis and all HAPPY BIRTHDAY references; and (ii) you will refrain from posting any similar infringing material on the Internet or any other on-line service in the future.
The foregoing is without waiver of any and all rights of the Recording Industry Association of America, all of which are expressly reserved herein.
Very truly yours,
Troll.
[Attorney]
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
In order to celebrate, somebody create a hosts file for the Internet, then everybody download it!
OK, so if you want Debian, you draw a swirl. If you want Dreamcast, then draw a swirl. But if I want to go to the Crusoe website, then I would draw a swirl, right?
Just imagine all the problems with squatting then. "I wanted to go to the White House website, but when I forgot one of the columns when drawing the little house, I went to a porn site."
SCO attorney David Bores confirmed this during the press conference by stomping up and down yelling: "We own it...WE own it!...WE OWN IT!". He also took his thumb out of his mouth long enough to give a 'thumbs up' to Mc Drivel during the press conference.
Mc Drivel also announced that the RIAA and SCO were currently involved in merger talks. "We believe that there is a good fit between both companies' philosophies. Together we shall dominate - er - license our intellectual property to everyone".
They were running AIX, right?
SCO, do what you must do!
Finally a celebrity that I share a birthday with that I actually recognize. And DNS even responds to my requests....
Happy birthday to the very first DNS-Nuke program, in about 5 minutes!