Earlier this month, one of my former employers, netNumina, was sold to Keane. I’ll avoid making any remarks about the sensibility of this apparently bizarre acquisition (at a valuation substantially less than the amount that the VCs invested in the company back in 2000… ok, I’ll stop there except to reflect back on this truly [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2005
Walking the DNS Tree
3/26/2005 – 2:07 pm
The DNS Rapid Update service that was put into place several months ago is really wonderful. If you make a change to the nameservers associated with a zone, the changes appear in the root servers almost immediately. In many cases, changes to a zone will start resolving right away, but due to record caching, sometimes [...]
Some Travel Rants
3/23/2005 – 7:37 am
The TSA‘s security efforts at US airports do not make any of us safer. The TSA staff at the checkpoints seem to be too focused on the minute mechanics of their jobs to be doing anything useful. If Richard Reid, the Shoe Bomber, hadn’t attempted to blow up a plane, none of us would have [...]
Mailman virtualhosting
3/2/2005 – 12:16 pm
When virtualhosting mailing lists Mailman, it turns out that your virtualhosted lists, in addition to being specified in mm_cfg.py, need to have A records and not CNAMEs in DNS. Messages fail mysteriously for some users when you use a CNAME record. online gasex