Subject: Re: bin/12876: NetBSD's INET6 patches to Postfix break non-INET6 features!
To: None <jchacon@genuity.net>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/09/2001 01:24:19
[ On Wednesday, May 9, 2001 at 01:13:05 (-0400), jchacon@genuity.net wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: bin/12876: NetBSD's INET6 patches to Postfix break non-INET6 features!
>
> Any sane NIS admin has it beat into them early on that NIS != DNS.

and you believed all that silly propoganda fed to you by the Sun SALES
engineer?  :-)

> Depending
> on one or the other to cross-pollute name spaces is rather silly since now
> you're special purposing something that was just claimed to be generic.

On the contrary I can prove from past experience that coalescing these
namespaces is extremely helpful and makes for far less confusion.  One
name for everything no matter which way you look at it from is in fact
the more generic approach....

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