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Counting our co.za blessings

Last week Thursday I registered a .COM domain with joker.com, a smaller registrar that I’ve been using for a few years. They accepted my credit card payment and I immediately configured a blogger.com hosted blog to use this domain. After three hours the delegation for the domain suddenly disappeared from the .COM zone, effectively taking [...]

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Making BIND zone files readable

Update: Added MIT License The zone configuration format for BIND has a number of short-cuts that make writing DNS zone files easy, but also make them hard to read. Here is an example: $TTL 3D @ SOA server1.example.com. hostmaster.example.com. (1 8H 2H 4W 1D) NS server1 NS server2 MX 10 server1 MX 20 server2 server1 [...]

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