RE: [cobalt-users] One server and secondary DNS

[Rodolfo Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Whoa, Jeff...

I think we may have a tiny little communications error here, and it's at
least mostly my fault for failing to make clear some of the basic
assumptions I made upon reading the earlier post. So, let me soothe the
waters here...

I am getting a cable modem put into my home. Here, my wife and I (and my
seven computers, my only children) will share the domain "indahaus.com" for
the sake of my personal entertainment. I bought my Qube to do everything it
normally does, since my house is wired for 100Mbps Ethernet, whole-house
audio, and voice-command home automation and I wanted to run Internet access
and services through one box. (And I didn't want to use Win2K...)

This (or close) is the environment to which I thought the earlier post
referred. Everything I've written here is consistent with this level of
informality, and offers no quality-of-service concerns under those
constraints. DNS on a cable modem is a perfectly reasonable solution when
the worst thing that can happen is that my wife and I get our email bounced
to our other addresses and our friends can't check my thoughts on SETI@home
progress.

> You're being extremely short-sighted.

Jeff, I can only think that this comment refers to your opinion of
implementing my suggestion in a commercial environment (any kind of serious
environment, in fact). However, should I be wrong, please do comment in more
detail; no one here should take offense to constructive criticism.

> How much do you know about the Internet?  How much do you know about
> DNS?  Enough to be dangerous?

Well, I've been using the Net since 1989, and I've been running businesses
on it since 1995. However, I'd say none of us really is or can be "expert"
on anything that changes so damn fast. And my entire focus is
entrepreneurial; anything I do on a technical level, I do as a hobby and on
my own time. This should be kept in mind.

Of course, all of us know "enough to be dangerous." After all, it is well
said that nothing is more dangerous than an idiot with initiative. And boy,
do I have initiative...  :)

> I care.  My customers care.  They like knowing that in the unlikely
> event their website goes down people won't be told it doesn't exist.

Of course you care! And anyone with enough sense to grab his/her genitals in
case of barbed wire also cares. I'll just repeat that I assumed that the
other user was in a case similar to mine, and didn't clearly state either
that assumption or my actual situation.

I agree entirely with your general perspective. It just didn't apply to me
at the time of my writing, and I was remiss in not being explicit so that
others would not misunderstand.

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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>