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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 20:19:33
Message-Id: CAGfcS_kk6UBa7UDq9N-dpbvRm2t0nveEpRo9OdYBAGYJZhG=Lw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins? by Grant Taylor
1 On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 2:51 PM Grant Taylor
2 <gtaylor@×××××××××××××××××××××.net> wrote:
3 >
4 > On 8/21/20 5:58 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
5 > > It is what just about every other modern application in existence uses.
6 >
7 > VoIP does not.
8
9 Yes, but VoIP isn't just implementing a simple data-exchange API. It
10 is a streaming protocol.
11
12 > No RDBMSs that I'm aware of use it as their primary protocol. (Some may
13 > be able to use HTTP(S) as an alternative.)
14
15 These pre-date webservices in general. They aren't modern.
16
17 > Outlook to Exchange does (did?) not use it.
18
19 Again, not modern.
20
21 > I'm not aware of any self hosted enterprise grade remote desktop
22 > solution that uses HTTP(S) as it's native transport.
23
24 Also streaming.
25
26 > > DNSSEC is:
27 > >
28 > > 1. Still poorly supported even where it makes sense.
29 >
30 > Yet another example of ignorance and / or laziness.
31 >
32 > I have found DNSSEC to be relatively easy to implement, and trivial to
33 > enable on my recursive resolvers.
34 >
35 > The ignorance portion is relatively easy to resolve if people want to.
36 > I highly recommend DNSSEC Mastery by Michael W. Lucas. That $20 (?)
37 > book and moderate amounts of motivation is all anybody that wants to
38 > implement DNSSEC /needs/.
39
40 Well, maybe check back when you get everybody who sends email to read
41 that book. You can start with my mother.
42
43 --
44 Rich