Re: [ifwp] Re: Interesting articles in Forbes and Chronicle of Higher Education

[jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Roeland and all,

  WOW!  Good and positive RANT here Roeland.  You are of course
right on the mark.  Michael Dillon is full of these misleading generalities
when it comes to software and design problems or bugs within it.  I
doubt that he could find his ass with both hands.

Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:

> At 12:00 PM 12/6/98 -0800, Michael Dillon wrote:
> >On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> >
> >> I guess this means that one doesn't have a dot <grin>. Rather, dot would be
> >> "virtual". Do you have BIND4 or BIND8 in mind here? What about the UDP
> >> problem that Dave keeps hinting at, but never specifying?
> >
> >Dave was talking about a cache coherency problem that exists in the domain
> >name system, not in the DNS software or the DNS protocols. The UDP
> >limitation that has sometimes been mentioned limits the number of real
> >root servers to 13.
> >
> >It really strains your credibility when you keep harping on this issue.
>
> Listen and listen good, This is the very first time I've seen this
> explained in ANY fashion other than "I vaguely recall there is a problem
> there". If you want proof, I can send the original e-mail from my archives.
> If I hadn't been harping at it then I *still* would NOT have had any
> definite answer. NOW I have something to look at. Can I assume that you can
> point where, in BIND, the problem exists?
>
> >You claim to be a technical expert and yet you don't appear to understand
> >cache coherency issues nor do you understand that technical problems can
> >exist in the system and not necessarily in the software.
>
> There is no such thing as a software problem that doesn't exist in the
> software, somewhere. If it is a cache problem then it should reveal itself
> in the functions that build and control the cache. If it is a second, or
> third order problem then it will be a bit more difficult to see, but it
> will be there. Either a boundary isn't getting checked, or there is some
> fixed size limitation inherent in the architecture, which should show
> itself in the *.h files associated with the cache management routines. Rest
> assured, I will look, if for no other reason than to check Dave's credibility.
>
> Things don't happen by magic. They can be very obscure, but they are not
> magic. Not in the the computer field. This is purely a programming problem.
> Usually, when someone can not explain something in this field, it is either
> because they just don't know, or they're making it up. When someone comes
> across with the "if you don't know then you're not expert enough" BS then
> it is invariably because they are trying to re-direct attention away from
> the fact that they are either ignorant, lying, or both, to stop embarassing
> questions which they can not answer without getting discovered for what
> they are. It is an arrogant and demeaning technique and it pisses me off to
> no end. It also speaks whole bibles of information about the character of
> the scum-bag that uses it, whether they are intentionally hiding something
> or not.
>
> Take this if the shoe fits ...
>
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