Preface -
The folks on the sys-admin list are talking about the migration of
services from the older server to the newer server. Of course, one of
the issues that's come up is DNS. This led to the following snippet:
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 09:04 -0400, wrote:
Well, there's at least one easy
Cole Tuininga wrote:
Unfortunately, shortening the TTL doesn't work for clients (like AOL)
that cache/maintain their own DNS.
I was curious - how do folks in general deal with this? While AOL can
certainly constitute a large number of users, my inclination is to say
hell with 'em. If they
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 10:27 -0400, John Abreau wrote:
Cole Tuininga wrote:
I wasn't aware that AOL was screwing this up as well.
Last I was aware, AOL cached DNS entries for a minimum of two weeks, no
matter what the TTL.
However, I don't
see anything that can be done about their blatant
On Mon, April 10, 2006 10:27 am, John Abreau wrote:
I wasn't aware that AOL was screwing this up as well. However, I don't
see anything that can be done about their blatant disregard for the way DNS
is designed to work.
There's actually one nice side-benefit I've noticed: some spammers
On 4/10/06, Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unfortunately, shortening the TTL doesn't work for clients (like AOL)
that cache/maintain their own DNS.
I was curious - how do folks in general deal with this?
There's nothing much you can do about Internet brain damage, so all
you can do
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 10:04 -0400, Cole Tuininga wrote:
Preface -
The folks on the sys-admin list are talking about the migration of
services from the older server to the newer server. Of course, one of
the issues that's come up is DNS. This led to the following snippet:
On Sat,
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:04:53AM -0400, Cole Tuininga wrote:
Preface -
The folks on the sys-admin list are talking about the migration of
services from the older server to the newer server. Of course, one of
the issues that's come up is DNS. This led to the following snippet:
On
Another term in this equation is that your average AOL user is just
slighter dumber than their computer -- with the power off. They're
more likely to have misconfigured settings, spyware, DNS hijacking,
other badware, obsolete software, etc. That sure doesn't help.
-- Ben
On 4/10/06, Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Preface -The folks on the sys-admin list are talking about the migration ofservices from the older server to the newer server.Of course, one ofthe issues that's come up is DNS.This led to the following snippet:
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 09:04 -0400,
Cole Tuininga wrote:
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 10:58 -0400, Mark Komarinski wrote:
Any evidence of this?
Nope - my knowledge is both anecdotal and quite possibly very out of
date.
Yes, but not recent, and not in the form of log files. I used AOL
merely to indicate that there are some large
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:04:53AM -0400, Cole Tuininga wrote:
Preface -
The folks on the sys-admin list are talking about the migration of
services from the older server to the newer server. Of course, one of
the issues that's come up is DNS. This led to the following snippet:
On
On 4/10/06, Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When we change a host's IP address, we drop the TTL to 300 seconds a
few days before, make the change, then raise it back up to 1 day.
Ideally, one does a ramp down on the TTL. For example, if your
TTL is set to one week normally, then one
Bruce Dawson writes:
Add to this the fact that most BIND servers operate using UDP instead of
TCP, and its easy to understand how BIND servers could become
corrupt.
How does the fact that a BIND server uses TCP instead of UDP make it
more or less secure?
(I don't know; this is why I ask)
Has anyone got multiple OSes running simultaneously on their personal
machines? I've got a laptop I dual-boot between WinXPPro (client
work) and Linux (more client work, home hobby), and I'd like to be
able to toggle between the two rather than a slow reboot.
Anyone doing this? What VM
Kevin D. Clark wrote:
Bruce Dawson writes:
Add to this the fact that most BIND servers operate using UDP instead of
TCP, and its easy to understand how BIND servers could become
corrupt.
How does the fact that a BIND server uses TCP instead of UDP make it
more or less secure?
Its more a
Hey Ted,
I am using VMWare running on top of Kubuntu. I have several Microsoft virtual
machines running, each with different software installed. The nice thing
about it is I can pause a virtual machine and then resume it later,
totally circumventing the windows boot process. In my work flow I
Aplogies for jumping ahead of Rob on this announcement, I couldn't
find any announcement about tonight's meeting in my email. But I just
saw on the SLUG website that tonight's SLUG meeting is an Introduction
to Python.
WhatMeeting
When2006-04-10
from 19:00 to 21:00
Where UNH Morse
I'm running VmWare and have always been happy with it. Over time the
workstation version has gotten progressively more powerful. For example I'm
currently running VmWare on a Windows X64 (64bit) host laptop. The guest OS
is a 64 bit Ubuntu system. With VmWare I can forget about the problems I
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 12:50 -0400, Greg Rundlett wrote:
Spread the word, and see you at UNH in Dartmouth!
s/Dartmouth/Durham/
?
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Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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What : Introduction to Python
Who : Rob Anderson
Group: SLUG (Seacoast LUG)
Where: Room 301, Morse Hall, UNH, Durham
Day : Mon 10 Apr 2006
Time : 7 PM - 9 PM
From the SLUG website: April's SLUG topic will be the Python
programming language. We'll be going over a set of slides created to
give a
On 4/10/06, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone got multiple OSes running simultaneously on their personal
machines? I've got a laptop I dual-boot between WinXPPro (client
work) and Linux (more client work, home hobby), and I'd like to be
able to toggle between the two rather than a
Who:Robert Anderson wil be presenting an set of Introduction to
Python
slides prepared by Harold Boley.
What: An introduction to the Python programming language.
When: Monday April 10th at 7:00pm
Where: Morse Hall Conference room 301
The following slide
Hey Ted,
I am using VMWare running on top of Kubuntu. I have several Microsoft virtual
machines running, each with different software installed. The nice thing
about it is I can pause a virtual machine and then resume it later,
totally circumventing the windows boot process. In my work flow I
thanks Ben, much better announcement. I was in too much of a hurry.
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On 4/10/06, Greg Rundlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
thanks Ben, much better announcement. I was in too much of a hurry.
That's okay... When I saw yours, I thought I'd post a message to
gnhlug-announce. But I didn't think to check the mail queues prior to
sending my announcement. So Rob's
I liked yours better ;)
On Mon April 10 2006 12:50, Greg Rundlett wrote:
Aplogies for jumping ahead of Rob on this announcement, I couldn't
find any announcement about tonight's meeting in my email. But I just
saw on the SLUG website that tonight's SLUG meeting is an Introduction
to
Cole Tuininga wrote:
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 10:27 -0400, John Abreau wrote:
Cole Tuininga wrote:
I wasn't aware that AOL was screwing this up as well.
Last I was aware, AOL cached DNS entries for a minimum of two weeks, no
matter what the TTL.
However, I don't
see anything that can be done
The next meeting of the Monadnock Linux User Group (MonadLUG) will be this
Thursday, April 13th, 7:00pm, at the SAU 1 Superintendent's Office behind
South Meadow School in Peterborough.
For directions, visit
http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/OurChapters#monadlug
AGENDA
1.
If you want a presenter this thursday, we might be able to bang something
together! Take at look at our website, www.resara.com
Warren L
On Monday 10 April 2006 2:48 pm, guy Pardoe wrote:
The next meeting of the Monadnock Linux User Group (MonadLUG) will be this
Thursday, April 13th, 7:00pm,
Add me to the VMWare crowd. I use it every time I do a demo. My laptop
came from Oracle with WinXP on it, I run Linux, WinXP and Win2K Server
VMs depending on which demo I want to run.
Sometimes running the WinXP VM with Oracle EE database, Oracle EE
Application Server, Oracle BPEL Server,
Cole Tuininga writes:
Preface -
The folks on the sys-admin list are talking about the migration of
services from the older server to the newer server. Of course, one of
the issues that's come up is DNS. This led to the following snippet:
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 09:04 -0400, wrote:
Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That explains it! Older versions of BIND had problems - they were
especially vulnerable to attacks, and fell down in pathologically bad
ways. It got to the point where I was restarting BIND every two days
until they (ISC) started coming out with security
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin D. Clark) writes:
Bruce Dawson writes:
Add to this the fact that most BIND servers operate using UDP instead of
TCP, and its easy to understand how BIND servers could become
corrupt.
How does the fact that a BIND server uses TCP instead of UDP make it
more or less
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