lance@motcsd.csd.mot.com (lance.norskog) (04/24/91)
>>Personally, I think the DNS administrative interface was designed by the IRS. >>It has to rank right up there with root canal work as one of the most fun >>things to contemplate. >This may be a little off topic, but isn't sendmail's configuration >files even harder to comptemplate, let alone complete :-) Every designer of network software makes the same mistake: they design the configuration files using the relative rather than absolute model. The absolute model uses one configuration file for an entire site; each machine uses it as a map and says to itself, "I am here, so I will go this direction". The relative model uses a different config file for each machine which says, "go this direction". It is horrifying to see this one occur over and over. It ties in with the general problem that people who are capable of implementing software are put in charge of architecting said software; they run off and skillfully design, debug, and maintain a mess. Lance