OpenCON 2006 Registrations OPEN

Contributed by deanna on 2006-10-26 from the openbeer-sounds-about-right dept.

fabioFVZ from OpenCON writes:

OpenCON registrations are OPEN

OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD. There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects. Several developers will be speaking:

Claudio Jeker: Network changes in OpenBSD
Marc Balmer: Time Signal Stations and GPS
Felix Kronlage: Redundancy or mobile deployment with 3G technology
Jonathan Gray: Driver architecture and implementation in OpenBSD
Gordon Klok: Processor Power Management
David Gwynne: The OpenBSD Culture and he will also fill in for Marco's Bio and Sensors in OpenBSD talk.
Can Erkin Acar: Developing Secure Software

See you at OpenCON 2006.

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By Hmmm... Link? (212.11.9.139) n o r y u n g i @ y a h o o . c o m on 2006-10-26 16:05

Like this one, perhaps?
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1. By Nate (74.13.33.246) on 2006-10-26 16:07
  
  >
  > Like this one, perhaps?
  
  Of course, because in this day and age, noone can google.
  Comments
  1. By Noryungi (212.11.9.139) n o r y u n g i @ y a h o o . c o m on 2006-10-26 16:13
    
    > > > > Like this one, perhaps? > > Of course, because in this day and age, noone can google. >
    
    Whoa! What an intelligent and measured response. Well, of course, anyone can google something. I just proved it, since I googled to find the link.
    
    However, including a small link in the article itself is not a big deal... And it makes a lot more sense. Now stop drinking too much coffee -- it makes you grumpy.
    
    Comments
    
    By Anonymous Coward (85.25.4.93) on 2006-10-26 19:07
    
    kids! you stop fighting or i'll turn this site around right now and it'll be tattoos all over again.
By Anonymous Coward (24.84.108.103) on 2006-10-26 16:24

http://www.opencon.org works
http://opencon.org returns server not found
This feels like deja vu from 1996.
Comments
1. By Florin Iamandi (84.221.201.5) florin@openbeer.it on 2006-10-26 17:57 http://todome.net
  
  > http://www.opencon.org works
  > http://opencon.org returns server not found
  >
  > This feels like deja vu from 1996.
  As much as you, me and no-www.org can be right, from the DNS point of view opencon.org is not a host, it is a zone. DNS zones do not normally have A RRs. Maybe it will make you feel better if you checkout postfix.org ;)
  Comments
  1. By phessler (64.173.147.26) on 2006-10-26 19:00
    
    > http://www.opencon.org works
    > http://opencon.org returns server not found
    >
    > This feels like deja vu from 1996.
    >
    > As much as you, me and no-www.org can be right, from the DNS point of view opencon.org is not a host, it is a zone. DNS zones do not normally have A RRs. Maybe it will make you feel better if you checkout postfix.org ;)
    >
    
    you can have an A and a zone. There is nothing preventing that, just admins that didn't provide one. Its just like if they didn't create www.opencon.org.
  2. By Anonymous Coward (66.11.66.41) on 2006-10-27 17:00
    
    What is an "A RR"? Yes, zones do normally have A records:
    
    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;google.com. IN A
    
    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    google.com. 300 IN A 64.233.167.99
    google.com. 300 IN A 72.14.207.99
    google.com. 300 IN A 64.233.187.99
    
    Only dumbasses who don't understand DNS, but think they do complain about setting A records for domains, when in fact everything in DNS is a domain and can have an A record. This is how it always has been, and you just didn't know that since way back when, nobody wanted their bare domain to have an A record. You could always do it, and it has always been correct.
    
    One of the fundamental goals of DNS was allowing arbitrarily deep nesting. You can set an A record for any depth hostname and a.b.c.d.e.f.g.h.i.j.k.l.m.n.o.p.q.r.s.t.u.v.w.x.y.z can both be a zone (having its own MX record, and subdomains under it) and have an A record itself, just like a.b can. There is no difference at all.
    
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    By Florin Iamandi (84.221.201.5) florin@openbeer.it on 2006-10-27 18:10 http://todome.net
    
    > What is an "A RR"?
    
    RR stands for Resource Record.
    
    > Only dumbasses who don't understand DNS, but think they do complain about setting A records for domains,
    > when in fact everything in DNS is a domain and can have an A record.
    > This is how it always has been, and you just didn't know that since way back when,
    > nobody wanted their bare domain to have an A record.
    > You could always do it, and it has always been correct.
    
    If you read my post again you can see that in no way did I say the OP was wrong. How could I when I have an A RR pointing at my own zone (which in my case maps exactly to my domain name)?! My message implied this is only a matter of choice and taste.
    
    PS: this is way OT now and you really don't have to call names in a public place.
    
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    By Anonymous Coward (74.115.21.120) on 2006-10-28 00:17
    
    > If you read my post again you can see that in no way did I say the OP was wrong.
    
    You said that "from the DNS point of view opencon.org is not a host, it is a zone". That is just plain wrong, there is no distinction made between the two. No matter how deep you nest your subdomains, they can all be zones, with whatever records you want, including A records.
    
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    By Florin Iamandi (84.221.201.5) florin@openbeer.it on 2006-10-28 06:09 http://todome.net
    
    > You said that "from the DNS point of view opencon.org is not a host, it is a zone". That is just plain wrong, there is no distinction made between the two.
    
    Maybe if you read section 1.4.3 from the BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual you will change your point of view.
    
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    By Anonymous Coward (74.115.21.120) on 2006-10-28 20:34
    
    > Maybe if you read section 1.4.3 from the BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual you will change your point of view.
    
    No, I would not. Configuring BIND has nothing to do with it. Just because you defined opencon.org as a zone in BIND, but didn't configure www.opencon.org as a zone, doesn't mean they aren't both the same from a DNS stand point. You could configure www. as a zone, its totally irrelivant. And any zone can have an A record, like almost everyone is smart enough to do.
2. By Anonymous Coward (151.188.247.104) on 2006-10-26 22:55
  
  > http://www.opencon.org works
  > http://opencon.org returns server not found
  >
  > This feels like deja vu from 1996.
  >
  
  That's actually the correct behaviour. "opencon.org" is a domain name. "www.opencon.org" is a host in that domain. Some folks, to make it slightly easier to type the site name, broke that rule and simply use the domain name to refer to their Web site. Check out DNS and BIND and see what I mean. However, this DNS hack has now become so commonplace--largely due to companies like Microsoft who do it--that many people are accustomed to being able to omit the hostname.
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  1. By Anonymous Coward (67.166.242.232) on 2006-10-27 04:41
    
    > However, this DNS hack
    
    I trust you deem setting an MX record for a domain as ``hackish'' as setting an A record...
  2. By Anonymous Coward (66.11.66.41) on 2006-10-27 16:53
    
    There's nothing "hack" about it. Everything is a zone, that's how DNS works. There is no differentiating between a zone that is 6 levels deep or one that is 2 levels deep, its the same thing.
    
    org. is a zone, and you can set an A record for it if you want. opencon.org. is also a zone, and can also have an A record. And of course www.opencon.org can have an A record, or MX record, or whatver. Even quit.complaining.about.people.who.understand.dns.when.you.dont.opencon.org. can be a zone and have an A record.
By Pierre-Yves Ritschard (88.138.193.133) pyr@spootnik.org on 2006-10-26 19:07

I hope I can get there, plenty of exciting topics !
By Martin Schr�der (87.193.29.151) martin@oneiros.de on 2006-10-26 23:27 http://www.oneiros.de

On the program is also a talk on "XXXXXXXXXXXXx" by Theo :-)
Comments
1. By Anonymous Coward (144.135.251.1) marklar_@hotmail.com on 2006-10-27 00:02
  
  And the 10 year party includes:
  
  Chicken, Beer, peanuts, music, sex..
2. By Anonymous Coward (70.179.123.124) on 2006-10-27 00:03
  
  > On the program is also a talk on "XXXXXXXXXXXXx" by Theo :-)
  
  Which kicks off the inaugural session of OpenCON - After Dark

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