Posts Tagged ‘DNS’
dig -x 69.69.69.69
;; ANSWER SECTION:
69.69.69.69.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR the-coolest-ip-on-the-net.com.
Take some consolation from the fact that she is now unemployed.
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
;; ANSWER SECTION:
developer.lotus.com. [...]
I think I speak on behalf of Volker and Stefan, when I say that we have little hope that IBM/Lotus will ever fix what they buggered up. I for one, don't want to keep checking.
While waiting for a phone call, I whipped up a little Nagios / Icinga plugin to monitor the "progress" of the [...]
The Conficker worms I've been trying to chase down since late August have been eradicated. At least, so I thought.
As a matter of curiosity, I'd set up DNS query logging on our internal root servers, not really expecting anything untoward to turn up. Boy, was I wrong: it turns out, that we had a [...]
libconfig may be yet another configuration library, but I gave it a once-over anyway, and it is good. libconfig calls itself "a simple library for processing structured configuration files", with a "file format which is much more readable than XML". The file format really is readable, as the following short example shows:
# authenticator
name = "JP";
enabled [...]
Martin sends me a picture of his bookshelf:
You'll have noticed, that my book Alternative DNS Servers is there. Looks good, next to the other definitive works.
In a very few days my book Alternative DNS Servers will be ready for printing, and I hope that will mark the last of my late-night and weekend work for some time to come.
The book's body is complete and locked.
The appendixes still have to pass via my editor, but I don't expect (crosses fingers) anything [...]