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

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items, details further below: 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_et...

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@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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