diff --git a/content/u/blog/love-letter-to-isc-bind/contents.lr b/content/u/blog/love-letter-to-isc-bind/contents.lr index 6906958..83a32cc 100644 --- a/content/u/blog/love-letter-to-isc-bind/contents.lr +++ b/content/u/blog/love-letter-to-isc-bind/contents.lr @@ -19,10 +19,9 @@ body: Dear ISC bind, this is a love letter to you. You probably don't know me, but I have -been a long term user of yours. I started using you - oh, that sounds -so wrong for a love letter, doesn't it? +been a long term user of yours. -I started my time with you in the late 90's, it was when you were +I started my time with you in the late 90's. It was when you were called "bind 4". I was very happy with our relationship. You'd not only take care of all authoritative requests, but also take care of caching client requests. Me, still being young at the time, I did not @@ -32,7 +31,7 @@ But then over time I got more experienced and I read and tried DNS cache poisoning and I was shocked. How could you? How could you accept incorrect entries? I had so much trust in you and then that! -So many years passed and after my shock, I had a fling with +Years passed and after my shock, I had a fling with [djbdns](https://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html) (together with qmail and daemontools). Which right away took security more serious. So serious that even managing djbdns with its own suite was almost like a @@ -60,7 +59,7 @@ hosting. And there you were, dear bind. Looking at me from the side of the software projects, saying "I think it's time we have a talk.". And indeed, we did have a talk. A talk about implementing DNS64. About -different nat64 prefixes in one configuration. About being +different DNS64 prefixes in one configuration. About being an authoritative name server that functions even if all upstreams are down. A name server that even allows the most funky configuration of *removing native AAAA entries* for DNS64 networks that should only @@ -79,7 +78,7 @@ being flexible, thanks for improving over time and thanks to still adhearing to the same configuration file format that I used in the late 90's. -Dear BIND, you are by far not perfect, but then again neither is +Dear BIND, you are by far not perfect, but then neither is reality. And this is your strength, solving real world problems. Thank you for doing so and thanks to all the involved developers!