At InnoTech I met Ed Sawicki of the Portland Area Network Users Group. Ed is working on a new book about DNS outside of the world of BIND and was very interested in Maintain since it uses Tinydns as a backend. In any case he convinced me to give a presentation.

On April 21st Danny and I gave the talk (OO.org Impress File) in a conference room on the Novell campus in Tigard. Unfortunatly the 21st happened to be one of the first sunny and warm days in several weeks so only about 10 of the expected 25-30 showed up to the meeting (I keep telling myself that is the reason for the low turnout :-)).

Also a good friend of mine, Ryan Miglavs, stopped by to watch the presentation. Ryan and I go way back, waaayyyy waaayyyyy back, to a time when squirrels roamed the country side and anti-pirates walked the streets. Phew, I am glad I got those inside jokes out of the way (you better be reading Ryan).

In any case it went well and I hope a few people went away wanting to try out the software. And I would like to thank PANUG for inviting me.

One interesting thing I learned from Ed during the presentation is that DJBDNS supports handing out different records depending on what IP they come from. This coupled with IP to country mappings would make for an interesting way to distribute the load accross a mirror network.