May 2008 Archives

I'm enabling ivp6 for all dns addresses now.  Let me know if I broke something.

I've made some changes on the system; more are coming. Specifically so far:

• goat.gigo.com is now accessible on ipv6.


• irc.gigo.com is now accessible on ipv6.


• mail primary MX is on ipv6; secondaries will be soon.


• I changed from djbdns to bind. Lemme know if you see anything funky. If you edit zones here on gigo.com, I'll only install them if it passes a basic "will it load" test (using named-checkzone).


• ns3 and ns4.gigo.com are deprecated; they are currently aliased to ns1.gigo.com
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• I'm not publishing IPv6 NS records - waiting for word on whether I can get "glue" records published to .com for that.

I'm in the process of simplifying my DNS setup. I'm reducing the number of DNS servers I maintain down to two. Most of the domains are hosted by me for web/email as well - and if the host is down, the DNS isn't gonna matter quite so much. If *.gigo.com servers are hosting your dns domain, please update your domains to point at these two name servers:

• ns1.gigo.com (Located in Fremont, CA using HE.NET)
• ns2.gigo.com (Located in Sacramento, CA using CWO.COM)

I will still keep ns3 and ns4 around, but they won't be unique from the first two.

"telnet" is a program that lets you make an unencrypted login to another host on an arbitrary port. It is a useful testing tool, for making sure that the firewall you're working on is working; or for making sure the service you are working on is answering. Normally you give it a hostname and a port number. Simple. Only, with apple, if you give it port 25 ("SMTP"), it decides not to do a regular host to IP lookup, but instead... does a MX record lookup. As in, it goes somewhere other than where you told it to go.