Re: Does IPv6 preclude use of a NAT gateway?
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
<hmh@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> If incompetent is equivalent to the Windows DNS admins saying "this is
>> a Unix problem", then yes...
>
> Well, it is equivalent to leaking trash to AS112 and the root zone,
> regardless of platform.
>
> What you describe is even worse: being that clueless about DNS when
> you're an "DNS admin" is outright negligence.
I couldn't agree more. This happened in the first week of a four-week
contract so I said that the obvious solution was to create a reverse
zone and everyone told me to shut up. We just edited "nsswitch.conf"
and removed "dns" from the "hosts" line.
TOTALLY OT: As far as the senior Windows sysadmin was concerned, it
was the problem of "toy OSs" and he wasn't willing to set up a reverse
zone for Solaris and Linux. He was very good as a Windows admin and
had the full backing of the IT manager and deputy IT manager. The two
Solaris/Linux admins owed their jobs to the managers (one was Sun
hardware engineer and a friend of the deputy manager and the other was
a Windows admin and friend of the manager; they were sent on Solaris
training and given these jobs; on my first day there, a desktop
support guy asked them what the difference between a soft and a hard
link was and they couldn't answer). They weren't in a position to put
their foot down in spite of the stupidity of the decision.
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