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From: "Justin MacCarthy" <macarthy@iol.ie>
To: "irish linux users group" <ilug@linux.ie>
Subject: RE: [ILUG] bind + lex + yacc...
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 15:48:54 +0100
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Never having to support a large network myself, I know very little about
this..
but what do lex & yacc have to do with anything ?

These are language parsers, used to build complilers / interptreters  and
the like???!!!

BIND, ok large networks might need DNS....

Have I missed something completely?

J

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ilug-admin@linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin@linux.ie]On Behalf Of kevin
> lyda
> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 3:39 PM
> To: irish linux users group
> Subject: [ILUG] bind + lex + yacc...
>
>
> i recently received this email from a friend of mine in the states:
>
>     i'm trying to figure out how to maintain about 200 domains, with a
>     hundred or so computers per domain.  some internal, some external.
>     i recently learned lex and yacc and i'm thinking that's the way to go.
>     i don't really know perl and i know it's useful but i think i can
>     write c faster then perl.
>
>     is this a good idea?
>
>     ps  we're really busy.
>
> obviously as a stupid developer with no real admin experience to speak
> of, i'm not qualified to answer this question.  does anyone with real
> admin experience have any suggestions here?  the problem sounds really
> hard, and i doubt anyone has had to deal with this level of complexity
> so there probably aren't any existing tools written.
>
> anyone else have any opinions or experience i could pass on?
>
> kevin
>
> --
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