[geeks] KVM for Sun Sparc Servers with USB keyboards
Dan Sikorski
me at dansikorski.com
Wed May 6 14:53:53 CDT 2009
Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> On May 6, 2009, at 13:26 , Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
>
>> If I want my own DNS, I can set it up. Others can use it. Look at
>> OpenDNS and all the others.
>
> You cannot set up your "own DNS".
>
Sure you can! I'll setup a DNS server that has it's own TLD's, and you
can use it if you want. I'll even give you your own TLD!
> You can set up your *TINY* part of the heavily centralized DNS system,
> that's all.
>
That's what most people do, but you could also ignore that large and
widely adopted system and start your own.
> Maybe you are forgetting that a lot of other centralized and well
> controlled servers are queried before yours are for the final
> authoritative answer.
Not if all of my hosts only look at my DNS server and not any others.
Consider a network that is not attached to the Internet at all, and uses
DNS for it's internal hosts.
> The Internet is not absolutely central or anarchic, and it isn't the
> same thing as a government anyway. It's a machine, and machines
> operate by rules if you want them to work well.
>
It is people that use and operate the machines that we would be talking
about here. The machines would serve no purpose without the people.
-Dan Sikorski
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