My company signed a contract for a provider that uses TZO as their DNS provider. Now I have used TZO before (circa 2006-2007) and although their interface was archaic and there was no API, I accepted it because I was told they were reliable. As it happens, the service was fantastic and they are very reliable. I don’t think the service went down once the entire time I was using them. I ended up leaving the company and never saw the API or new interface come to fruition.
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Erics Tech Blog Thoughts, musings, and other idealistic (sometimes useful) systems and development hoopla.
DNS Staying With The Times
31 Mar 2010 — ericCluster SSH with cSSHx
29 Mar 2010 — ericI am in the middle of building out a group of about 25 machines in a data center for my company. I hadn’t really dove into it on a micro level until a few days ago. I was moving around on individual machines that others were working on. When I had gotten to one of the “untouched” machines, I found that vim wasn’t installed. There was about 15 machines that were “untouched” and therefore were missing vim (along with other stuff). And seriously who wants to install a bunch of the same software on every machine after they’ve already been kickstarted?
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Count Instead of Sequence
26 Mar 2010 — ericI use Bash one liners a lot. I think they are an important part of any programmers and sysadmins toolkit. If you can’t write a bash one liner, even a simple iterator, then you really need to learn. I promise it will make your life infinitely more pleasant.
Frequently I find myself writing things that require a loop or an increment of numbers. A good example would be like something that would walk over my web servers and check their uptime, load averages, etc. Using seq, that’s easy. But since Mac OS X doesn’t come with the seq command, I would previously improvise.
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Goodmail Adds Microsoft Domains
24 Mar 2010 — ericOn the same day that Goodmail removed Yahoo! from its pool, it added the vastness of Microsoft domains. These domains include hotmail.com, live.* and msn.com.
The addition of Microsoft to the Goodmail community is a good thing because it means that Microsoft is starting to play ball in the email community. However it comes as bittersweet with the loss of Yahoo!.
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