Job Offer !!!

General — 29 March 2005, 10:05
Bert just received his first job-offer. I guess that Sandy googled a bit and mailed the addresses she harvested. I considder to have Bert reply and see if we can get him to fly over (Fedex?) for an interview... Suggestions are welcomed.


From: Sandy Perlman
To: bert@secret-wg.org
Subject: Software DNS Position
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:52:23 -0800

I work in the staffing department at Infoblox. We are looking for a Senior Software DNS Internals expert to join our company. I would appreciate any referrals you might have.

Infoblox www.infoblox.com designs, develops and sales DNS/DHCP, Radius and LDAP appliances. Founded in 1999, Infoblox has shipped over 2000 products to over 400 customers with over 50 fortune 500 companies as customers.

The technical team combines next generation database experts with notable contributors to key internet technologies including: Cricket Liu, author of O'Reilly's "DNS and Bind"; Stu Bailey, former tech lead at National Center for Data Mining at University of Illinois, Chicago; Alan Dekok, principal contributor to FreeRadius.

Location: Sunnyvale, CA (Silicon Valley)

Title: Senior Software DNS Internals Engineer

The key responsibilities:
_ Design and implement Secure DNS (DNS-SEC)

_ Provide extensions, enhancements, transitions from current products to nextgen products

_ Analyze customer and marketing requests for feasibility, costs and effort

_ Provide input to project schedules and report progress

_ Analyze defect reports, provide patches when required

_ Write technical specification and internal operation guides

If you have any questions or would like to apply, please send me your resume or give me a call.
For a complete list of positions visit: http://www.infoblox.com/company/careers.cfm

Sandy Perlman
Technical Staffing Manager
408-331-6945 Desk
408-483-1122 Cell
408-331-6971 Fax
www.Infoblox.com



Exploding Mac.

General — 28 March 2005, 16:53

Fried Apple


I read Triv's blog and he reports that his laptop caught fire in the middle of the night.

This is a picture of the laptoy. There are a couple of pictures of his room on the blog.

I wonder what circumstances this happened and if there are actually statistics of events like this. This is pretty scary stuff.

Will warranty cover this? Will Triv ever use an Apple again?




April 1 RFC

General — 17 March 2005, 23:51


My friends at the secret working group have just submitted Internet Draft to the RFC editor for April 1 publication. Lets hope Bert will have his first RFC in a 14 days.


Glas corrosion and Wank surfing

General — 17 March 2005, 23:40

New words


I have a thing with "new words" so my attention was cought when I was cycling past a billboard that showed the word "Glascorrosie" (Dutch for "Glascorrosion") next to a picture of a somewhat dull glass in the rack of a dishwasher.

The word glascorrosion does not exist in Dutch and its amazing how the marketing people of dishwasher detergent came up with a word that without any explanation has a very clear and threathening meaning. The marketing folk who made that up are amazing.

I do proud myself to have invented a word in Dutch too. Its not in common use and a google query for it actually results in no hits. The word is "Ruksurfen" the closest English translation would be "Wanksurfing" (0 hits in google). Its the thing that young males (not me) do when they are bored and type in that 3 letter word for which Google provides 140.000.000 hits.

I would like to go on record as the person who introduced "Ruksurfen (Ruksurfer)" into the Dutch language, or maybe even the person who introduced "Wank surfing (Wank surfer)" but then again its not something to be proud off. Maybe I should just register wanksurfer.com...








Net::DNS::Nameserver

Technical — 4 March 2005, 11:15

I was just looking at a survey of nameserver software. For some reason Net::DNS::Nameserver seems to serve a significant number of zones. On the other hand it seems to only have 6 installed instances.  I am curious. Who would use Net::DNS::Nameserver to serve their zones in production.  I suspect these are false positives.

On the other hand Bert's Secure Reverse Polish DNS Calculator (BSRPDNSC) might have inspired folk.




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