Outsourced Clue

Setting up Unbound Recursive/Caching DNS Server on CentOS/Redhat

sleach — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:13:10 +0000

There is a lot of noise out lately about the recently published DNS Caching Server vulnerability (and with good reason). A lot of patching of BIND and other vulnerable resolvers has commenced. Unbound, an open source recursive/caching resolver from the NLNetlabs guys doesn’t have the problem, and is just a good all around [...]

Programmers are Causing Global Warming (Repost)

sleach — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:09:02 +0000

I posted this before on an old blog, thought I would repost it here: Catchy title eh? I have decided that all of the issues of global warming can be attributed to programmers. Lazy programmers. “What is he talking about?” I hear shouted from the fourth row. I am talking about the [...]

Great Page Showing Some Cool Geek Posters

sleach — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:14:22 +0000

Kudos to the fellas at Pingdom for gathering a page showing some pretty slick geek posters. My favorite is probably the CAIDA network map (I have one like that from back in 2001. Memories…). View the Pingdom page.

Broken Caching DNS Server Causes Headaches

sleach — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:55:03 +0000

By now you have read the many reports of The Planet’s data center fire. Long story short, there was an explosion on the first floor of their Houston facility (old ev1servers data center) that affected network connectivity, servers and a ton of other items. Some buddies of mine, Pelago, have their gear in [...]