iamcal.com Linklog

2008-06-30 15:36:27

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:36:27 +0000

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 here

2005-11-23 19:59:36

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:59:36 +0000

a couple of great articles 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?

2005-04-11 10:32:39

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 10:32:39 +0000

of course, someone has already set up a public portal and dns server to help you avoid the hard part of setting it up.

2004-07-13 16:08:47

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:08:47 +0000

good news via salt: verisign to stop being so shit and update atlas once every 5 minutes instead of 12 hours.