pmsumner

Lookie here. *gets excited*
OK, Bind 8 is now running as a simple caching nameserver, DNS requests go to mainpc first of all, then if mainpc can't answer they go to ns0.ivarch.com (or whatever it's IP is). I should probably ask ivarch if this is OK before I start doing anything serious with it :) It's just that his DNS servers are a hundred times better than NTL's, which pretty much died during the last worm outbreak.

Why am I doing this? Uhhm. Yeah. Good question. I got fed up of NTL's DNS servers and decided that it was probably nicer and quicker to use Bind as a cache, rather than hit ivarch.com every time I needed a lookup. Also it's been interesting learning to set it up.

Someday I may set up a wee domain for my internal network, just to play some more.

Oddly enough, I do seem to have developed one small problem. Postfix is refusing to accept mail unless I turn off DNS lookups, with an error "Domain of sender must resolve", when they plainly do (dig @mainpc livejournal.com MX gives a result). I've turned off DNS lookups for Postfix in the meantime, while I try to figure out what's up.

Weird.

Today I have been to the bank, taken my car to the garage and had lunch at the James Watt (hmmm, good burger). I haven't posted two amazon packages but they will get done tomorrow morning, I don't think I start until lateish.

I seem to have watsed an evening on geekery.
Oops.