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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..."
Its funny because I just setup my first authoritive DNS server ever this week. It was fun stuff.
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I used safari.oreilly.com to get me the DNS and BIND book + other helpful things all for (well free for 2 weeks) $15. Thats just friggen awesome.
Ill just add this little tidbit: SBC has its in-addr.arpa. shiz setup as IN-ADDR.ARPA. Aparently this makes a big fucking difference. So, if tomorrow you decide to celebrate 20 years of DNS by setting up a new authoritive server with SBC, make sure you setup your zone file to be authoritive for IN-ADDR.ARPA. not in-addr.arpa. like the books say
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Parent is advocating a Rude thing to do, namely to query each of the root servers for all of the names they know about.
dig ("domain internet gropre") is a tool for interrogating DNS servers about the various named objects they can identify - hosts, networks, mailservers, etc.
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The picture was going to change with B2C, but the boom has collapsed saddenly, and then all investors have frozen their money waiting when Mr. President will finally all his wars he's planned. I guess once he's doneand investors are back then B2C will take it's second chance and then we'll finally see more and more infomration services about resources directly not related to internet nor to computer industry.
;), but I also can say with absolute certainty that the dot-com crash had little, if anything, to do with the Bush administration. It was already well on it's way to crashing before Bush took the White House.
You're kidding, right? You don't *really* think that the dot-com crash had something to do with Bush do you?
Now, I'm no big Bush supported (well, a different kind of big bush, but that's a different story
The dot-com crash came about mostly because people were being disingenious about an Internet-based economy. Various people in these dot-com startups were going around thinking they could run a business by selling a product for less than it cost them to produce. Any 1st year business school student (heck, any 1st grader even!) could tell you that you can't make money doing that. It's ludricrous! So the venture capital dried up, the companies went bust, and *big surprise* Wall Street investors pulled all their money out of dot-com stocks.
Little, if anything, had to do with Bush and his wars. Bush and his wars *did* cause a freeze in economic markets, and *did*contribute to an *already* unstable economy (due mostly to the dot-com crash) but it didn't in any sense of the word create the dot-com crash.
My journal has hot
On this anniversary, let us not forgot one of the other fathers of the Internet, Dr. Vinton Cerf who co-created the TCP/IP protocol and was a major contributor to the invention of DNS. Dr. Cerf is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors at ICANN and Senior Vice President for Architecture and Technology at MCI®. So, Dr. Cerf, combined with Dr. Postel and Mr. Mockapetris, are the three fathers (or, father, mother, and uncle) of the Internet.
Best,
Doug
Doug Mehus http://doug.mehus.info/
Ford did get a class A - 19.0.0.0/8: