Everything is a Freaking DNS problem

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IntoDns

So a couple of weeks ago I blogged about DNS Knife late last year I ran into an even better tool.

Enter IntoDNS

Apparently IntoDNS.com finds more issues like the zone file listing different nameservers from the ones you defined …etc..

So change your bookmarks, browse that page :)

Drupal6 in EPEL

Dear Drupal Community,

If any of you are interrested in getting a packaged version of Drupal 6 into Fedora’s EPEL repository (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) and therefore usable in RHEL and Centos,
please comment on the Bug I filed to get it’s introduction started.

Any pitfalls, benefits etc are welcome ..

thnx in advance !

Packaging Djagios

After all the politics involved in getting a package in a distro, or not it was time for a nice small and clean package of a fresh and promising open source project. Djagios was an easy choice.

I’ve uploade the rpm and Source RPM to repo.inuits.be and getting the SPEC file in the upstream repo was 10 minutes work.

Next step is to get it into Fedora , and EPEL :)

Packaging Drush

A couple of weeks ago I was once again manually installing Drush as there were no packages for CentOS / EPEL or whatever, apart from the needed patch to get it running on a 5.1.X RHEL php

I had found this thread on Drupal.org mentioning that a package already exists
however David had not answered the exact location yet
So I created a drush package with a with the above mentionned patch and sent it to Jon Ciesla again he gave some suprising feedback ;)

Drupal 6 for EPEL

Some of you might have noticed that Fedora 11 and up already have an up to date Drupal6 version, but EPEL , which is what a lot of people are using on their CentOS or RHEL builds only has a Drupal5. I asked Jon Ciesla, who is maintaing the Drupal packages in Fedora why :

Because when Drupal was initially built for EL-5 and EL-5, the 5.x
branch was the current release. It’s up to date, 5.20 is the most
recent release, and is still supported upstream in terms of security
fixes. 6 is out, and has been for awhile, but we have the following:

Barcamp Gent 3

Barcamp Gent 3, the one that took place yesterday is probably going to be my last Barcamp in Belgium. I already had my doubts upfront when looking at the suggested talks, but once there I realized it was much worse than I expected.

Lemme repoint you folks to what I wrote about the first Barcamp in Belgium back in 2006
Maybe my expectations on what kind of people / talks to meet and see there were a bit wrong.. when looking at other barcamps where people such as whurley and Moshe were present, I was maybe hoping for a bit more of system level innovation etc. or at least more technology innovation rather than Bloggers meet and talk about Blogging tools. I wasn’t sure on what I should talk about as most of the topics I usually speak about would have been so out of scope and probably wouldn’t have reached any potientiel audience.\

Option D

Lots of people writing about Snorkle again today ,Monty Says, help saving MySQL

He gives us different options, a , b or c .. but I , and some others, want an option d

No I don’t trust Oracle, it’s not like they have been a very good Open Source Citizen, yes they contribute to the kernel and other projects but my feeling says it’s only because they have to (Kernel, Xen and others ) not because they Want to (thinking about Unfakable etc) , if they would really want to they probably would work with the CentOS community more etc, and as Monty mentions their InnoDB track record could be better.

Fosdem 2010 is getting closer

The 10th edition of Fosdem is getting closer, yes .. I said 10 ,10 decimal that means ten, not two :)

It’s kinda hard to imagine that this is actually going to be my 10th fosdem , it feels weird ..

Anyhow.. Lenz just announced a call for participation for the MySQL and Friends devroom.

I`m guessing a talk on .LolSQL might be a good fit for the “and Friends” part.

FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting

Disabling DHCP on a LibVirt setup

So you have this libvirt setup and you want to have a dhcp server on the virtual machines you are playing with , or you want to have all static IP’s.

Libvirt uses dnsmasq to provide dhcp services etc and when you generate a config from the gui it will look like\

1. <network>
2. <name>piponet</name>
3. <uuid>e87d3bf1-a2e7-96ca-e131-7ae51ac033f9</uuid>
4. <bridge name='virbr2' stp='on' delay='0' />
5. <ip address='192.168.100.1' netmask='255.255.255.0'>
6. <dhcp>
7. <range start='192.168.100.128' end='192.168.100.254' />
8. </dhcp>
9. </ip>
10. </network>

If you fully remove the dhcp section, then restart libvirt you’ll notice dnsmasq running with no dhcpd on that subnet so you’ll have full control again :)