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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 [...]
Hosted Google Spam!
19.Jul.07 | 8 Comments
This morning I was at the signup page for Google Apps about to sign-up to the enterprise plan for my company. I personally have been using the free version since last March and have been quite happy with it. Since we definitely need to make some email changes at the office, this seems the [...]
Hosted Email and Dead Computer
14.May.07 | 2 Comments
I’m pondering switching the office over to hosted email. Our Exchange server is very out of date and a bit of a pain. Seems like maybe letting someone else deal with config, maintenance and backups — not to mention spam measures — would be easier.
I’m proposing the Gmail Apps solution.
I’ll need [...]
Outages and Apologies
25.Feb.07 | 1 Comment
Glancing at logs, look like we were down for the last 8 or 9 hours. Ouch.
There was a planned power outage for 3 hours (2 days notice). Apparently things went a bit awry (and that’s being polite). At any rate, things appear to have stabilized now.
[update: ok, I lied. The site [...]
Google Desktop - Only One Gmail Account
23.Dec.06 | 5 Comments
I installed the latest version of Google Desktop today as I was curious to see how it handles monitoring multiple Gmail Accounts.
It doesn’t handle that well. It’ll manage only one. It’ll even index it for you. But you only get one.
I searched through the desktop gadgets but didn’t see anything there [...]
