politics of the wannabes

By lenz on July 15, 2008 3:27 PM | | Comments (0)

dns is in trouble, at least caching dns. i guess everyone who is into that topic is busy patching his resolvers. the funny thing about that topic is the kids that start wining that this is all bad and that the new design does not work for them and so on. it looks like paul vixie now stepped up to calm the crowds. his post is nice, i love clarity :-)
problem with the post is that the kids don't know paul or don't value his input but hey, after 7th of august there is not too much to worry about kids anymore. the internet will be a mess and there will be heaps of crying kids, complaining that all this is not fair and that there was too less time for them to patch and all the usual bla bla ...
there is a moment in your live where you learn pretty radical that there are some guys you better listen to when they say that things go bad. if you think you know better the world will show you that you are wrong. this is one of those moments.

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