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5168d818evldns - A Framework for Light-weight DNS Servers
I ve recently written and released source code for evldns . evldns is a software mashup - it takes libevent s fast event processing code and combines it with ldns s DNS packet handling.  It s derived from the server-side...
5169d309Bash shell scripting and octal values
While rechecking my rdup test-suite one of the tests failed. On closer inspection it was due to the following line: DAY_BEFORE=$(( $(date +%d) - 1 )) When $(date +%d) is 10 this yields: $ DAY_BEFORE=$(( 10 - 1 )) $ echo...
5169d464Bash shell scripting and octal values
While rechecking my rdup test-suite one of the tests failed. On closer inspection it was due to the following line: DAY_BEFORE = $ (( $ ( date +% d ) - 1 )) When $(date +%d) is 10 this yields: $ DAY_BEFORE = $ (( 10 -...
5169d319Bash shell scripting and octal values
While rechecking my rdup test-suite one of the tests failed. On closer inspection it was due to the following line: DAY_BEFORE = $ (( $ ( date +% d ) - 1 )) When $(date +%d) is 10 this yields: $ DAY_BEFORE = $ (( 10 -...
5170d335Performance plotting with atop and Gnuplot
A customer wanted some performance figures for a ESX cluster we built. We used our own atop and the trusted workhorse of plotting Gnuplot to make some performance plots. Creating the data As said, we used atop for this,...
5170d487Performance plotting with atop and Gnuplot
A customer wanted some performance figures for a ESX cluster we built. We used our own atop and the trusted workhorse of plotting Gnuplot to make some performance plots. Creating the data As said, we used atop for...
5170d324Performance plotting with atop and Gnuplot
A customer wanted some performance figures for a ESX cluster we built. We used our own atop and the trusted workhorse of plotting Gnuplot to make some performance plots. Creating the data As said, we used atop for...
5172d342How to mess up git
So you think you know git today I found out something funny . In a git repository: $ git log $ fatal: object 1fcc8de9361c56e538ff35d8cc4b07a9c95b7bf3 is corrupted Okay, WTF? Lets look in the .git directory: $ cd...
5172d330Die Pulseaudio, die die die!!!
Finally made the switch to jackd which works so much better than Pulseaudio. Ubuntu did not make this easy, but with some perseverance it works. One of the things I really hate about Pulseaudio is that when I click on a...
5172d547How to mess up git
So you think you know git... today I found out something "funny". In a git repository: $ git log $ fatal : object 1f cc8de9361c56e538ff35d8cc4b07a9c95b7bf3 is corrupted Okay, WTF? Lets look in the .git directory: $ cd...
5172d377How to mess up git
So you think you know git... today I found out something "funny". In a git repository: $ git log $ fatal : object 1f cc8de9361c56e538ff35d8cc4b07a9c95b7bf3 is corrupted Okay, WTF? Lets look in the .git directory: $ cd...
5172d497Die Pulseaudio, die die die!!!
Finally made the switch to jackd which works so much better than Pulseaudio. Ubuntu did not make this easy, but with some perseverance it works. One of the things I really hate about Pulseaudio is that when I click on a...
5172d355Die Pulseaudio, die die die!!!
Finally made the switch to jackd which works so much better than Pulseaudio. Ubuntu did not make this easy, but with some perseverance it works. One of the things I really hate about Pulseaudio is that when I click on a...
5173d351Ssh escape key
Yes, what a nice post on ssh escape keys. So you need to press enter and then ~ for the escape character to work!
5173d478Ssh escape key
Yes, what a nice post on ssh escape keys . So you need to press enter and then ~ for the escape character to work!
5173d377Ssh escape key
Yes, what a nice post on ssh escape keys . So you need to press enter and then ~ for the escape character to work!
5175d778PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.7.1 released!
I'm pretty proud of this release, or to state it better, proud of not having a real reason to do a release for over a year. Over the past year, the PowerDNS Recursor has gone places I never thought it would go,...
5175d815Moving closer to pizza perfection!
I truly love a good pizza, but it is a rare event to find one. So, I've long been baking my own pies, at first in a normal oven and later in a special pizza oven . Although the "G3 Ferrari" looks impressive, mine is...
5177d340DNS classes
If you ever administered a DNS server you are probably familiar with the IN (internet) class, as in localhost IN A 127.0.0.1 where you define an IP address for the name localhost. As you may, or may not, already know...
5177d486DNS classes
If you ever administered a DNS server you are probably familiar with the IN (internet) class, as in localhost IN A 127.0.0.1 where you define an IP address for the name localhost . As you may, or may not, already know...
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