[From nobody Fri Dec 6 16:56:03 2019 Message-ID: <19981125214551.A272@fdn.org> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 21:45:51 +0100 From: Michael Hallgren <hallgren@fdn.org> To: Dana Hudes <dhudes@panix.com> Subject: Re: Hello Reply-To: Michael Hallgren <hallgren@fdn.org> References: <19981124234914.C14527@fdn.org> <3.0.3.32.19981125080921.008a2e30@panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19981125080921.008a2e30@panix.com>; from Dana Hudes on Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 08:09:21AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 08:09:21AM -0500, Dana Hudes wrote: > Hi Michael, Hello :-) > I'm in-between jobs, the last one didn't work out. Well,... that's life... > I have found a few consulting hours helping wanna-be ISPs in strange > parts of the US (so far, there is of course no reason not to remote-help > anyone with internet access) deal with DNS. These folks are usually running > NT and read but fail to understand the DNS book, so their zones are screwed > up in interesting ways. > Hihi,... I spent last night with one of our DNS guys... Randy Bush (from Verio), funny guy... big mouth, but with a lot of content. Needless to say, w/o Graphnet connotation ;-) -- OSS kinda stuff... > Looks like I will have a big contract spot for 6 months with one of the > large consulting firms working on LAN design at their client, one of the > major banks. Go for it ! Among the people I've crossed around the Net, you're one thoose beloning to the "appreciate list"... along with (speakin' tribe) Mr wbarsse :-) Who knows,... maybe our paths re-cross some day. > Rate isn't what I wanted, $10/hr less, but with 2 agencies in the mix > everyone gets squeezed. > Hmm,... kinda tiny... but the market get's flooded nowadays... > I'm getting a new computer, a dual Pentium-II/333 with lots of RAM and lots > of disk. Lucky guy :-). I'm stiil on PII/233 (single) ;-) >Not sure yet which unix I will run . The advantage of solaris is > keeping my hand in for future solaris admin work but the disadvantage is > that you have to compile and build everything useful starting with gcc and > going from there. Yep, but in the view of recent "news", Sun isn't probably the wrong way to go;-) > FreeBSD comes with all this done. Panix run NetBSD on their web servers and > now one user host. I haven't looked at NetBSD. I've been playing a bit with it, some 5 months ago... pretty neat... in particular wrt secu. So, panix's into NetBSD... interesting. > Linux would be a > possibility but I'm not really thrilled with it for a server. > I agree. It seems (to me) Linux's more or less going into desktops... Linus T, would probably kill me for this rem ;-). Rhoughly, network/stability thinking I'd rater go for BSD... > My plan is to get one of the free rdbms packages and run database-backed > web service. Go mysql :-)... swedish stuff, out-performing postgresql (at least for the moment;-). >I'm also getting a DSL line if the darn vendors ever call me > back. > Lucky guy, revisited :-). FT (France Telecom) seems to have abandoned an R&D project in favor of stickin' to ISDN... money talks... > What's up by you? How is Graphnet? You are lucky to be so far away from Mr. > Elkon in distance and time. > Well,... I'm presently more a maintainer than an innovator... nuff said ;-) Michael (eager to stay in touch) BTW, did you get my mail concering the RIPE routing object's ? > Dana > > At 11:49 PM 11/24/98 +0100, you wrote: > > > >What's up ? How're you doing ? Where are you ? > > > >Michael > > > >-- > >Michael Hallgren, http://mh.graphnet.fr > > > > > -- Michael Hallgren, http://mh.graphnet.fr ]