Paul Vixie



Paul Vixie is an American computer scientist whose technical contributions include Domain Name System (DNS) protocol design and procedure, mechanisms to achieve operational robustness of DNS implementations, and significant contributions to open source software principles and methodology. He also created and launched the first successful commercial anti-spam service. He authored the standard UNIX system programs SENDS, proxynet, rtty and Vixie cron. At one point he ran his own consulting business, Vixie Enterprises.

Quotes

 * The Internet is not for sissies.
 * ba.internet (1994)
 * Notes: in a reply to a luser.


 * Note that I hold the single-author record for total CERT advisories, proving that in my copious youth I knew how to sling code but not how to manage risk.
 * NANOG mailing list (2002)
 * Notes: talking about software security bugs.


 * Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed.
 * NANOG mailing list (2000)


 * You sound like a man with a vision. Care to pass that bong over this way?
 * NANOG mailing list (2004)


 * The internet has no government, no constitution, no laws, no rights, no police, no courts. Don't talk about fairness or innocence, and don't talk about what should be done. Instead, talk about what is being done and what will be done by the amorphous unreachable undefinable blob called the internet user base.
 * NANOG mailing list (2004)


 * personally i prefer the MX RR and a stylized name, but i was trying to solve the problem rather than create an industry.
 * NANOG mailing list (2004)
 * Notes: about Sender Policy Framework


 * Isc remains deeply apologetic that prior versions of BIND did not properly catch the configuration error that you appear to have built your business on.
 * IETF/namedroppers mailing list (2001)


 * Usually they finish by whining «but I WANT it!!! and so, I tell them: «So what? Everybody wants something. I want a pony. Get over it.
 * CircleID article
 * Notes: referring to proponents of multiple DNS roots.


 * While discussing the merits of djbdns over BIND (2004): Niek: "Bind people don't ack djb points and vice versa." Paul Vixie: i don't ack djb's existence, not merely his 'points.'
 * NANOG mailing list


 * With usenet gone, we just don't teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more.
 * NANOG mailing list


 * I've been lawsuit-threated [sic] by experts, and i can tell you from that experience, dv8 appears to not be an expert.
 * IETF mailing list archive