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That Whole DNS “thing”
26.Jul.08 | Leave a Comment
You’ve probably been inundated with news about Dan Kaminsky’s DNS cache exploit, potentially one of the biggest Internet-wide vulnerabilities ever announced. Unpatched DNS servers can be easily tricked into leading users to bogus Web sites, and literally, without patching the DNS servers (and sometimes the clients) there is little the average end-user can do. Although [...]
Meebo and Google Talk with Google Apps
24.Jun.08 | 1 Comment
Many moons ago I tried to use my hosted Google ID (via Google Apps) with meebo and had no success. At the time, I just shrugged and moved on — my regular Google Talk ID was working fine.
Since then, I’ve standardized the office on Google Talk[1]. I have other IM clients I like and use [...]
Today’s Stumper - DNS
29.Feb.08 | 4 Comments
Our domain at work is handled by Network Solutions (yeah yeah, I know, don’t start with me. I inherited them!) We also use netsol’s name servers for all our DNS management.
So, I have entries like:
Host
Record Type
Value
@
A
aaa.bb.cc.ddd
www
A
aaa.bb.cc.ddd
secure
A
aaa.bb.cc.ddd
demo
A
aa.bbb.ccc.dd
vpn
A
a.b.c.d
MX
aspmx.l.google.com
cal.domain.com
CNAME
ghs.google.com
mail.domain.com
CNAME
ghs.google.com
(the a.b.c.d groupings just represent various “real” IP addresses of my servers. You can see from the MX and CNAME [...]
(X)ubuntu and Slow DNS
19.Jan.07 | 5 Comments
It was just a week or so ago that I cobbled together another laptop running Xubuntu. Alas, I didn't have that one for more than a few days before I decided my oldest son could use a computer more than I needed a secondary machine. So, it became an XP Pro laptop...
However, I've [...]
A glance at OpenDNS
03.Aug.06 | 3 Comments
The OpenDNS product is an interesting one. By pointing to their DNS server(s), the theory is that they will protect users from phishing and speed up their web browsing. For free. As a fan of "free", I thought I should have a look.
OpenDNS makes the Internet experience safer, faster and smarter for [...]
