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5170d346First post running Ubuntu 10.10
Well, the upgrade was easy enough, some weird LDAP database corruption that was fixed easily by running db4.7_recover in /var/lib/ldap. There is something fishy going on in /etc/nsswitch and using files instead of...
5170d471First post running Ubuntu 10.10
Well, the upgrade was easy enough, some weird LDAP database corruption that was fixed easily by running db4.7_recover in /var/lib/ldap . There is something fishy going on in /etc/nsswitch and using 'files' instead of...
5170d391First post running Ubuntu 10.10
Well, the upgrade was easy enough, some weird LDAP database corruption that was fixed easily by running db4.7_recover in /var/lib/ldap . There is something fishy going on in /etc/nsswitch and using 'files' instead of...
5178d772Twitter echo chamber fail
" Lots of people are WRONG on the Internet! " Twitter users have a propensity to retweet, echo and rebroadcast interesting facts and links without very much fact checking. For example, @_468 This October has 5 Fridays,...
5178d674The "leaky abstraction" of the POSIX file interface
Hi everybody, Lately I've been looking into large scale database key/value storage engine performance, and the results were not very good. Machines that should seemingly be able to load the full .COM zone with no...
5182d43Tweets of September 30 2010
Hoppa: pxe + puppet + git werkt perfect, servertjes komen op en wordt autom. geconfigureerd Thu Sep 30 10:53:30 +0000 2010 Nice idea and looks like a promising configuration tool: http://augeas.net/index.html Thu Sep 30...
5184d691Secure Routing: State-of-the-Art Deployment and Impact on...
This ENISA publication reports on a study by NLnet Labs and GNKS Consult, surveying current state-of-the-art secure routing technologies. Network operators, engineers, and researchers are interviewed on the deployment of...
5184d639Secure Routing: State-of-the-Art Deployment and Impact on...
This ENISA publication reports on a study by NLnet Labs and GNKS Consult, surveying current state-of-the-art secure routing technologies. Network operators, engineers, and researchers are interviewed on the deployment of...
5187d712DNSSEC incident report
We had an incident two weeks ago with our DNSSEC signing system causing it to accidentally release a new Zone-signing-key into our live zone file. We have spent the last two weeks looking into how this may have happened...
5187d664You can now own the house from which PowerDNS Recursor 3.3..
Yes, you too can live in the house from which PowerDNS Recursor 3.3 was released! Details are here ! Special price for you ;-) Close to the city centers of The Hague and Delft!
5188d652PowerDNS Recursor 3.3 released!
Hi everybody, We're proud to announce the release of the PowerDNS Recursor 3.3! It can be downloaded from http://www.powerdns.com/ Version 3.3 fixes a number of small but persistent issues, rounds off our...
5188d673The University and College Union are spammers
The Universities Superannuation Scheme is currently in the process of changing its terms and conditions from a final salary pension scheme to a career average scheme. Unsurprisingly the UCU are campaigning against this....
5190d945How to implement GSS-TSIG on ISC BIND
The purpose of this article demonstrate how to get GSS-TSIG or secure dynamic updates working using ISC Bind DNS on a *NIX server. After several hours of trying to get this to work, perhaps this article would have been...
5205d806Simple shell scripting for Twitter
I have a few scripts which manage my URL log , including posting a copy of the feed to my Twitter and del.icio.us accounts. Until recently the scripts have just used wget 's HTTP Basic Auth support to authenticate to my...
5206d2862010 Chili
5206d2742010 frankrijk
5206d2702010 zweefvliegen
5211d667Episode 18
In this podcast, Matt and Cricket answer Leen Besselink’s question about the viability of Dan Kaminsky’s proposed use of a clever DNSCurve concept in DNSSEC, and Matt offers his high opinion of the Dutch people (surely...
5212d41Tweets of August 31 2010
Replying to @bdekruijff 2 proggies, wat flashen en klaar. Ik ga snel ook de foon van @snavaes flashen Tue Aug 31 05:32:11 +0000 2010 Mental note to self: nieuw toetsebord regelen. Die HP s zijn ondingen Tue Aug 31...
5213d651Some notes on Solaris 10 x86, 64 bit compilation, bugs and..
Over the past few months, I've spent a lot of time getting the PowerDNS Recursor to perform well on Solaris 10 on x86. Initially, I thought this could not be a lot of work since there are many happy Recursor users on...
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