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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..."
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.
"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.
but don't sing Happy Birthday or you'll get screwed for copyright infringement.
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
Its funny because I just setup my first authoritive DNS server ever this week. It was fun stuff.
:)
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
The ultimate network admin tool needs HELP!
Isn't it weird that people take automated name resolving for granted in the internet world, and yet don't find it odd to have to look up other people up themselves manually in another, older, even bigger world wide network called the "telephone system", using an regionalized locally-cached database called the "phone directory" that's updated only once a year ? In the 21st century, I find it really surprising that phones still feature a 10 key touchpad and cheapo dialtones to talk to you.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
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!
This would be kind of like palm graffiti where each "shape", that you draw in the silkscreen, is registered as a character.
In Asian languages, that "new" concept is called "ideograms".
100.000 concepts, 100.000 ideograms. That may work for educated chinese or japanese people, but for internet websites, you're talking about gazillions of "URL graphitis", not just tens of thousands. Considering the difficulty standard computers still have translating handwritten latin alphabet, which is only 26 letters, I think this is a crackpot idea. And even if it worked, did you think about handicapped people, or blind people, who might just like to type URLs in plaintext ?
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
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'
ARPANET IMP addresses were orignally 8 bits. They were expanded from 8 to 16 bits in the late 1970s, but some sites didn't upgrade their software and only talked to host numbers below 256. So having a low host number (1..255) meant something.
I got the fifth Class B IP block (128.5.xxx.xxx) for Ford, and that was being nice - we probably could have gotten a class A. BBN had four class A blocks back then.
And there was no spam. Not ever.
first successful test of the automated domain name system, or DNS...
Conventional wisdom is that we have yet to witness such a thing.
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?
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/
Finally a celebrity that I share a birthday with that I actually recognize. And DNS even responds to my requests....