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Hi Greg,

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Greg Black wrote:
> I'm not chafing at all.  I certainly have no vested interest in seeing
> djbdns spread.  I really do like to see alternative implementations of
> major infrastructure software, because I think we all benefit from
> that.  The fact that people can choose qmail or postfix as
> alternatives to sendmail is a good thing. The fact that they can
> switch to djbdns is also a good thing. If there was a third DNS
> implementation available, that would be even better.

This is a very well made point which I agree with whole heartedly.
Monocultures are very fragile. We are much better off when essential
infrastructure is incarnated by many implementations of good quality. So I
am pleased to hear that djbdns implements zone transfers in much the same
way as I was pleased to hear that MySQL now supports transactions.

Cheers,

Raymond
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raymond at humbug.org.au   Just once, I'd like to quote someone famous in
			my .sig and spell their name right -- Mi.


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