Archive for May, 2008
My new phone (Samsung A950)
I’ve only owned a few cellphones in my life and mostly for work. Work would offer to give me one so I could answer late night calls or tickets off the clock (i.e not paid). I’m wise to this scheme now.
Recently moving into an apartment with no landline, I figured it was time I get a cell again. Not because I make a lot of calls, but because clients would ask where they could reach me off hours. Heck, ordering pizza would be nice too.
May 28th, 2008 at 1:39 am
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It All Happened on a Tuesday… (also friggin banks!)
The title here refers to Tuesdays. A fellow I’m living with now, German guy, has told me that everything bad that ever happens to him happens on a Tuesday. Paying attention now, it seems to be happening to me as well! Maybe it’s a Tuesday curse?
The Need for Secondary DNS: Setting up zone transfers with axfrdns
The other day, my server hosted with SpaceRich was down again. This time, according to support, their networks were undergoing a massive DDOS. It was fixed quickly, but it made me realize the importance of having a secondary DNS server.
I don’t have another server handy at the moment to actually provide secondary DNS, so I will likely get a friend to help out. If they were using tinydns as well, I would simply have to transfer them my new data file every time I update. I’ve had this automated in past setups, and it is how Dan himself recommends to do it.
However, what if I can only find someone running Bind? Having worked with Bind in the past, I know it has a pretty sweet master/slave system, which using AXFR, has the slaves automatically retrieve any updates made on the master.
DJBDNS supports this via a program called axfrdns. Setting it up is a similar process to tinydns…
May 19th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
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Setting up Postfix and DomainKeys (part 3)
In my last post, I finished the Postfix setup of things. dkimproxy was being used as a loopback transport in Postfix to sign the messages and reinject them into the queue. Sending myself messages, I could clearly see the DKIM sig in the header.
The last step was testing my setup.
Setting up Postfix and DomainKeys (part 2)
So when I left off in my last post I ran into a snag with my DNS provider not allowing TXT records > 255 characters. I’ve since moved off ZoneEdit, and am hosting my own DNS using TinyDNS. So today, I’m going to resume the setup, starting with adding the appropriate DNS entry.