Archive for the ‘DNS’ Category
dig -x 69.69.69.69
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69.69.69.69.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR the-coolest-ip-on-the-net.com.
The Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries, has produced the following video to help explain the functioning of the Domain Name System (DNS). (via.)
It is nicely done and very colourful. I particularly liked how they producers show how fast DNS resolution is with the lump of sugar falling into the cup of coffee.
Several [...]
The other day, a friend and I where making fun of somebody who is known to say that the DNS is always at fault. Since no normal human being knows what dig is, let alone how to use it, we thought of building a mail to DNS gateway as a joke. Anyhow, the whole thing [...]
I was chatting to Stefan a bit yesterday, and he mentioned being on the lookout for a small DNS server that can also do DHCP, so I recommended an excellent tool called dnsmasq, which is
a lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server. It is designed to provide DNS and, optionally, DHCP, to a [...]
Die DENIC schreibt:
Die DENIC eG wird die aktuellen Domainrichtlinien unter der Top-Level-Domain (TLD) .de dahingehend erweitern, dass künftig auch ein- und zweistellige Domains sowie reine Zifferndomains registriert werden können. Desweiteren werden Domains, die einem Kfz-Kennzeichen oder einer TLD entsprechen, für die Registrierung freigegeben.
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IBM/Lotus aren't the only ones:
Last night, a routine maintenance of Sweden’s top-level domain .se went seriously wrong, introducing an error that made DNS lookups for all .se domain names start failing. The entire Swedish Internet effectively stopped working at this point. Swedish (.se) websites could not be reached, email to Swedish domain names stopped working, [...]
The background of this posting is easily understood: IBM/Lotus announce a new site, and it turns out the site is unreachable, because its DNS settings (that's the stuff the makes your browser know where to go to) are badly broken. To add insult to injury, once their DNS settings are fixed (a trivial change which [...]
Chris also appears to be avidly following the IBM/Lotus DNS saga, and writes that there is news! (BTW, my joke plugin didn't detect this change, because I didn't expect it to happen any more. )
The news? They've managed to get enough knowhow together to replace the whole resource record:
dig @cmtu.mt.ns.els-gms.att.net. developer.lotus.com
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developer.lotus.com. [...]