All the links from iamcal.com 2008-06-30T15:36:27Z Flickr tag:iamcal.com,2005:/linklog/1214865387/ 2008-06-30T15:36:27Z 2008-06-30T15:36:27Z some guys i know had some DNS issues when they switched servers. turns out you need to open port 53 for TCP aswell as UDP. who knew? some details <a href="http://tcpmag.com/qanda/article.asp?EditorialsID=339">here</a> Cal Henderson http://www.iamcal.com/ tag:iamcal.com,2005:/linklog/1132804776/ 2005-11-23T19:59:36Z 2005-11-23T19:59:36Z a couple of <a href="http://www.tenereillo.com/GSLBPageOfShame.htm">great</a> <a href="http://www.tenereillo.com/GSLBPageOfShameII.htm">articles</a> on the issues involved with gslb. if anyone has any idea how akamai's freeflow/edgesuite claims to provide dc failover in around a minute i'd live to know - dns trickery or route convergence? Cal Henderson http://www.iamcal.com/ tag:iamcal.com,2005:/linklog/1113240759/ 2005-04-11T10:32:39Z 2005-04-11T10:32:39Z of course, someone has already set up a <a href="http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050327/1627/">public portal</a> and dns server to help you avoid the hard part of setting it up. Cal Henderson http://www.iamcal.com/ tag:iamcal.com,2005:/linklog/1089760127/ 2004-07-13T16:08:47Z 2004-07-13T16:08:47Z good news via salt: verisign to <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/13/verisign_dns_update/">stop being so shit</a> and update atlas once every 5 minutes instead of 12 hours. Cal Henderson http://www.iamcal.com/