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Really should use a templating engine for Meisha's website.. 21 hrs ago
Flicking some DNS zones around. #powerdns gsqlite3 backend really doesn't like apostrophes in TXT RRs :-P 1 day ago
"Firefox: It Won't Make Your Missus Puke" should be the next Mozilla slogan :-) 2 days ago
Questions With Obvious Answers Number 65535: Asking a sysadmin on a Friday afternoon if he wants a beer. 2 days ago
I hope rebirth really exists so my network administrator spends the next several lifetimes as a telemarketer. Thatll teach him. 2 days ago
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I’m IPv6 ready - are you?

Firstly for those wondering about Courier-IMAP / authlib / maildrop+authlib packages for Leonidas: I’ve built them successfully - only a minor adjustment needed after all that - and it’s available in the usual place. Enjoy, and let me know if there’s any bugs / issues.
(For a change I managed to get them out the door [...]

Sort-of-Emergency Post

I’ll keep this short as it’s a little late and I should turn in.
I’ve had a bit of a hosting hiccup - my now ex-host unceremoniously cut me off and disconnected my server on Valentine’s Day, citing an ESA copyright notice. Unfortunately for him and the ESA, there’s absolutely zero proof or truth to the [...]

Offline, again.

Sorry to readers / visitors again for another extended outage. This one is again not my doing but this time there’s been a happier ending.
I elected on Friday to churn my ADSL service to Internode (a fairly large ISP here in Australia) as they provide a decent service and I get a discount as a [...]

Offline for too long

Apologies for the outage even though it’s not really my fault. I gave Webcentral (who supply my ADSL service) the necessary 30 days notice for account closure on Monday only to find the service cut off on Wednesday afternoon because two staff members failed to read the ticket and issued an immediate closure - I [...]

Charley Says “Don’t Generate Backscatter”

Seems I’ve been on the end of a fair amount of backscatter because some clueless nimrod of a spammer used enlartenment.com as the SMTP sender domain of one of their mailouts.
I found the attempt mildly amusing. It basically provided a free benchmark for my MySQL server
Despite having only a 512 ADSL line and [...]

A word on DNS blacklists.

There seems to be some disagreement regarding use of DNS blacklists (”DNSBLs”) among some members of the Internet community (pro-DNSBL here and slightly con here for example)
This is fine, they’re both valuable notices and opinions. What bothers me a little is the seeming lack of understanding (mostly from commenters) of how they work in practice, [...]

…so he tries to get too frickin’ clever..

…and almost loses.
As noted in my last entry, I picked up a gigabit switch in the post Christmas sales along with a suitable network card. Today, being a generally wet/overcast day (meaning “watch cricket on the TV and hack around a bit if it’s slow”) I picked up a matching gig card for Qbert, my [...]

Another Christmas survived.

It wasn’t half bad, actually - got to catch up with Paul and his missus among other relatives I don’t see too frequently. As usual, the food is plentiful and good.
Sleeping on the couch (as per tradition for me) was not so good and my back is absolutely killing me. Next year I’m either demanding [...]

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I’m IPv6 ready - are you?

Sort-of-Emergency Post

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Charley Says “Don’t Generate Backscatter”

A word on DNS blacklists.

…so he tries to get too frickin’ clever..

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