[sf-lug] BALUG: meeting: Tu 2025-09-16 DNS and BIND & other BALUG News

[Michael Paoli]

BALUG: meeting: Tu 2025-09-16 DNS and BIND & other BALUG News

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BALUG: meeting: Tu 2025-09-16 DNS and BIND
giveaways (& wanted), hardware, CDs/DVDs, books/publications, ...
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...

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For our 2025-09-16 (3rd Tuesdays) BALUG meeting,

    6:00pm Tuesday, September 16th, 2025 2025-09-16 DNS and BIND

    At least at the time of this update we don't have a specific
    speaker/presentation lined up for this meeting, however, do have at
    least one general discussion topic in mind:

    DNS and BIND

    So, our old friends (frenemies?), DNS and BIND. Will have at least
    one person present who's quite experienced with both, having much
    dealt with both for decades, and also including large scale
    critical environments (e.g. multi-million dollar+ companies
    entirely dependent upon such (high engagement web based business),
    financial institution with trillions of dollars in assets where DNS
    is highly critical), and has also recently been doing quite a bit
    of backwards and forwards compatibility testing and retesting of
    BIND 9, and with DDNS, DNSSEC, chroot, etc. and updating
    documentation thereof (see: https://wiki.debian.org/BIND9).

    So, have questions, comments, etc. regarding DNS and/or BIND?  Or
    simultaneously running 9 VMs on a 10+ year old laptop for various
    regression and backward and forward compatibility testing?  Or
    what's up with Debian's "old" wiki?  Or most any other question or
    discussion topic you want to bring up?  Well, bring it to the
    meeting!

    Virtual:
    https://meet.jit.si/BALUG.org Dial-in numbers may also be available
    at the URL.
    Please use earbud(s)/headphone(s) or mute yourself to avoid audio
    feedback issues, also please if you have background sound/noise
    issues mute yourself when not talking.
    Generally works quite fine with reasonably modern Firefox
    Chrome/Chromium, Microsoft Edge, possibly others (requires WebRTC
    https://webrtc.org/
    (Wikipedia: WebRTC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC)
    (can also do some testing here: https://test.webrtc.org/ Probably
    don't worry about minor items like "Reflexive connectivity" )), from
    desktop, laptop, tablet, smart phone, etc.

    Henry's Hunan Restaurant
    110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery)
    San Francisco, CA 94105-3704
    1-415-546-4999
    https://www.hhunan.com/ https://www.hhunannatoma.com/
    Delicious Hunan cuisine and reasonably priced.
    Easy Transit/Parking Access: short walk from BART, MUNI, parking
       Trip planning:  http://www.511.org/

Meeting Details...

Cost/Dining:
     The meetings are always free, but dinner is not (unless you are our
     guest speaker, in which case we also treat you to dinner).  For
     Henry's Hunan Restaurant, if folks are agreeable, we'll share and
     dine "family" style, and split up the costs, and typical cost per
     person including tax and tip (but not including beverages beyond
     complementary tea) would be in the $17.00 to $35.00 range, and
     commonly around $19.00 to $30.00.  Cash preferred to ease splitting
     up the check.  One can also specifically order the dish(es) one
     needs/prefers (e.g. for dietary considerations) - and we also
     commonly order some dish(es) that may meet various dietary
     considerations) (e.g. vegetarian, non-pork, ...). Punctual arrival
     recommended for optimal dining experience, as we expect to be
     ordering at that time.
     At approximately 7:00 P.M. we start our presentation/talk, or more
     informal talk/discussion if we don't have a particularly
     presentation/talk/presenter or special guest arranged.

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giveaways (& wanted), hardware, CDs/DVDs, books/publications, ...

We often have various giveaway items at BALUG meetings.

Hardware, etc. wanted/offered!
Got some (computer, etc.) hardware, etc. you're looking to acquire or
give away (or if not free, well below current fair market value),
and locally?  We have a wiki page to list that - so ... see what's
offered, wanted, etc.!
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:offered_wanted_hardware_etc

CDs/DVDs/ISOs, etc. - have a look here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
See URL for details.  If you're interested in anything in particular,
best to request such reasonably in advance (may not schlep the
inventory or portion(s) thereof, or have some particular ISO burned and
available in quantity >0 if it's not requested in advance).
Donations of USB flash, blank or +-RW media, or funding thereof,
also appreciated.

Books and other titles!
have a peek here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:books_and_publications

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help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue ...

You can do useful and cool stuff volunteering to help BALUG.

Quite a variety of opportunities to help BALUG.  Come talk to us at a
meeting and/or drop us a note at: balug-contact at balug.org
These opportunities may include, among other possibilities:
o assist or lead on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
o venue arrangement (e.g. followup on potential leads,
   on-site coordination/preparations)
o chief/assistant cat herder
o assist on publicity
o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some
     quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrator(s)).
o webmaster, assistant webmaster, designer, graphic artist
o archivist/history/retrieval/etc.
o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG would like to be doing
     (also feel free to suggest ideas!)

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