26 September 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Benchmarking DNS servers with Java

TweetI’m currently in the process of moving our DNS over to another provider and I was curious as to whether the old or new provider offers faster lookups. dig shows query times, but I didn’t want to just run that over and over. I decided to write something to do this, in Java since I [...]

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20 May 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Back on FiOS again (finally)

Well, that was quite an ordeal.

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24 April 2011 ~ 2 Comments

Going back to FiOS

TweetI’m not sure why these guys operate this way – they’re more than happy to lose me as a customer and then throw huge discounts at me to get me back. If they’d just give me a good price I’d love not to have to go through this rigmarole. But after being with Cablevision for [...]

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13 December 2010 ~ 0 Comments

More fun parsing BIND query logs

Tweet“But wouldn’t it be cool if it also…” That phrase usually triggers a lot of wasted cycles in my brain, though it sometimes comes up with something neat. I added a super lame graph to the DNS QPS parser. Makes it really easy to see peaks & troughs in usage:

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07 December 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Perl script to calculate DNS queries per second in BIND (named)

TweetI’m pricing out DNS providers and was asked what our current queries-per-second currently are. Sadly I had no idea. After lots of Googling I decided there was really no good way to get this information so I decided to parse the logfile myself.

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27 July 2010 ~ 6 Comments

Outlook 2007 & Exchange 2010 Autodiscover SSL certificate error annoyance

TweetOne of the more annoying side effects of migrating my mailbox to Exchange 2010 has been the nagging of Outlook 2007′s Autodiscovery feature. Now, every time I start Outlook I get hit with a certificate error for autodiscover.domain.com. Now, autodiscover.domain.com is a CNAME to mail.domain.com, which is the OWA URL for the CAS. The SSL [...]

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