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Serge pinged me today over Jabber asking hot to tackle an accidental typo in the serial number of a zonefile.
1. dig +short SOA ibbt.be
2. dns1.ibbt.be. admin.ibbt.be. 2009141017 7200 3600 1209600 432000
No really we don’t need no 13th and 14th month. Given the fact that lots of us use the YYYYMMDDID format That would mean that we’d have to wait for 20100101 to happen before we can update in a readable fashion again ..
No I did NOT post the following comment
This is ridiculous. You didn’t test MySQL, you tested a failing DNS lookup on authentication.
resulting in the follow up post :
My previous post Redis, Memcache, Tokyp Tyrant, MySQL comparison had a flaw as pointed out by this comment. The MySQL was taking a huge time for doing a reverse DNS lookup.\
But as always … Everything is just a Freaking dns problem :)
Tom Limoncelli is so wrong , he list DNS problem only as nr 33 on his dumb-things to check list.
And obviously it should be the very First thing you check !
by @botchagalupe
on Virtualization, Open Source tools and DNS Problems
What I would like as a feature from Santa,
I would like to be able to report a comment as URL Spam , you know the case where the content of a comment is perfectly OK, but the URL the commenter uses is a link to a NSF, pure spamming or absolutely unrelated site.
There’s nofollow etc , but to keep my site clean I’d have to report these commen
ts as spam, however when you start analysing the content of the message and comparing that content to other posts you will eventually get false positives.
While browsing trough my enormous mailinglist backlog I ran into the following message from Gianluca Cecchi on the DRBD-user mailing list
guess I`ll have to give Lars a T-Shirt when we next meet ;)
1. From: Gianluca Cecchi
2. To: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com
3. Subject: [DRBD-user] notes on 8.3.2
6. - drbdadm create-md r0 segfaults when the command "hostname" on the
7. server contains the fully qualified domain name but you have put only
8. the hostname part in drbd.conf
9. Instead, the command "drbdadm dump" correctly gives you a warning in
10. this case (suggesting how to correct the error you made....):
12. suppose complete hostname is virtfed.domainname.com and you put
13. virtfed alone in drbd.conf
14. [root@virtfed ~]# drbdadm dump
15. WARN: no normal resources defined for this host (virtfed.domainname.com)!?
17. while
18. [root@virtfed ~]# drbdadm create-md r0
19. Segmentation fault
Guess I`ll have to give the Linbit crowd a T-Shirt when we next meet ;)
This article by Paul Vixie is a must read if you want to know what DNS is not about .. and how people abuse it for the sake of extorting money from morons.
Ah well.. nothing we didn’t already know.. just more proof that
Everything is a Freaking DNS problem.
Not sure on which layer the problem is.. must be on a layer even above the religious one.. the “Greed” one.
So we have a Zimbra, and a Funambol and I have an Android, so what would you think I want to test .. exactly .. run the Android Funambol client on my phone.
On forge.funambol.org it looks great .. nice screenshot .. then you look closer ..
Contacts OK, Calendar Not supported (yet) .. apparently it has been like that sincs it got released which is over a year ago.
So I`m looking for other ideas on how to sync my Zimbra Calendar with my Android
Here’s how it started :
So I used to be a software developer, writing perl for the web, then C, then Java, then PHP, till I realized nobody ever configured my servers correctly and I changed trades becoming a system engineer, while teaching new developers the basics of their trade, whom grew into doing Infrastructure Architecture .. familiar story for much of the crowd at DevopsDays … a crowd that wants to stopping the war between developers and system engineering , a crowd that wants to automate builds, integrate testing, deploy, deploy on very large scale, deploy in the cloud and much more.
I’ve have never been a really an HTC fan, because of the platform they used before, I have been a Ericsson GA628, SH888, then Sony Ericsson fanboy for all my life T39m, K700, K800i , so this is my first attempt into using a different brand of phone , I’ve been wanting an Open Phone for ages.. but I’ve been waiting for Godot, er the openMoko, for way to long now so with the introduction of the HTC and my K800i being long overdue for a replacement.