On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:42:54AM -0700, Roeland Meyer wrote:
Oracle (try and build a DB without reverse working right. Net8 stops you dead in your tracks).
Sorry, but this is just 100% wrong. I've set up Oracle on many boxes and you don't need any DNS at all to set up an oracle DB. In fact, I tell our DBA's to use IP addresses in their TNSNAMES.ORA files because I don't want the DB depending on DNS.
Let's see, I don't want to make my DBs dependent on DNS, so I use IP addrs. Yet, I can't depend on IP addrs because my upstream might have to be changed... damn, I shouldn't have depended on my scumbag DSL upstream, eh?
I believe we've been through this discussion before.
Gee, maybe I should have had a names based system after all? Either way, I wind up having to rebuild Oracle boxen and application servers, every time somebody farts. Just what in blue hell are we supposed to do?
Maybe you should get a clue, or hire someone who has one.
BTW, the last I checked SSL certs are usually names based. Pretty slack security, eh?
Yes. See http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/bugtraq/19991114052453-12962-qmail@cr-yp-to and http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/forgery.html --Adam