[dns-operations] Goodbye DNS, Goodbye PowerDNS!

[Valentin Bud]

Dear Bert,

I am one of the millions of lives you've touched with your great work
on DNS. I would like to thank you and wish you an even more wild ride
from now on.

My personal experience with PowerDNS was a very pleasant one.
Very easy to configure it, for my needs at least, a set it and forget it
kind of tool.

I was amused to see one of my initial concerns written about in your
articles, the zone files being stored in a DB.

May Courage, Truth and Love follow you wherever you may go.

Blessings from Romania in this uncertain time.
Valentin Bud


On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 6:14 PM bert hubert <bert.hubert at powerdns.com>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I thought it polite to also mention it here, especially since my parting
> post comes with some thoughts on DNS: I am leaving DNS and PowerDNS.
>
> Although I do grumble a bit in the post, it has been an honour for me to be
> part of the DNS community.  I leave the scene a lot wiser about the world,
> and I hope to have improved the state of DNS somewhat while I was there.
>
> Please read the whole post on
> https://blog.powerdns.com/2020/11/27/goodbye-dns-goodbye-powerdns/
> which also has clickable links. I think some of you might enjoy the
> PowerDNS
> history posts - part 1 is up already.
>
> The gist is:
>
> After over 20 years of DNS and PowerDNS, I am moving on.  Separate from
> this
> page, I am releasing a series of three huge posts on the history of
> PowerDNS, so I won’t dwell too much on that here.
>
> This is not an easy story to write.  I don’t like to grandstand, but when
> the founder of a project decides to leave after two decades, people do
> expect some form of an explanation.
>
> It is also customary to describe such an exit in upbeat terms, sometimes to
> the point that you wonder that if things were so great, why is this person
> leaving?
>
> But the reality is, I got bored and wanted to do new things.  PowerDNS and
> the wonderful people who I met along the way have taught me so much –
> software development, operations, marketing, sales, business development,
> community building, writing internet standards & much more.  It has been a
> wonderful ride.
>
> But now it appears DNS and I are somewhat at the end of our relationship
> (even though I will remain a minor PowerDNS shareholder).  Formally I leave
> on December 31st.
>
> Helping build PowerDNS to what it is today – a flourishing department of
> Open-Xchange, able to fund itself by delivering its software to paying
> users, while maintaining good relations with the open source community, has
> been an incredible honour.
>
> As I leave the company, management and software development have long been
> in the hands of people I am proud to call my successors.  They are doing a
> better job than I ever did – the only claim I have on the current success
> is
> that I helped recruit this next generation.  I don’t think there is much
> more to aspire to when you create a company than leaving it behind in good
> shape.
>
> ... please do read on at
> https://blog.powerdns.com/2020/11/27/goodbye-dns-goodbye-powerdns/
>
>         Bert
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