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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 [...]

Pager Quest

27.Apr.07 | Leave a Comment

Want to feel old-school and ancient? Go try to buy a pager.
I monitor our production operations, and quite a bit of dev too, with WhatsUp monitoring software. I love it, it does everything I need now and stuff I look forward to figuring out some day.
I used to do all the notification messages [...]

(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 [...]

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