bert hubert finally blogs

Wardrobe, Statistics, PowerFiler, PowerDNS

Posted by bert hubert Fri, 07 Apr 2006 20:06:00 GMT

Wardrobe

I should be looking snazzy again, spent a heap of money on clothing the past two days. I tend to neglect my appearance, which detracts from my engineering brilliance :-)

Statistics

In other news, I used the Sun T2000 to do statistics on the .COM zone, and learned some performance related things. One trick is if you do stuff on the commandline, it pays to stretch out things over several processes using pipes, as more strands will be busy. This is the opposite of what you do on smaller systems.

Much calculating later, I now have some solid figures on PowerDNS use and I have to say I’m rather pleased. It appears there are far far more PowerDNS users than mailing list subscribers, which makes me a bit sad. These people might miss vital PowerDNS security announcements. So, if you are a PowerDNS user, head over to the mailinglists and subscribe, even if only to the announcements list.

PowerFiler (PowerArchiver)

I announced the open sourcing of PowerArchiver the day before yesterday and have since decided to change the name to PowerFiler as PowerArchiver is an existing product. I also bought powerfiler.net and powerfiler.org and brought them online, but there is no content yet. I’m pondering hosting the entire website on trac, but this is not perfect. But then again, what is.

I made PowerFiler compile on FreeBSD, which required all of a two line change. See the previous entry on how to get PowerFiler!

PowerDNS

Ahh - big day again. You may recall a large Dutch ISP trialling PowerDNS. They are so confident they switched over 3 more of their most important nameservers to PowerDNS. I feel all warm and fuzzy.

Also, I’ve suspected this before, but there are things about PowerDNS I don’t know. Like TUPA, The Ultimate PowerDNS Admin. It looks cool. Then I hear rumours about Druid DNS releasing cool stuff, as well as Frontiernet. I’m very happy to see these projects but please drop me a line if you are developing things on top of PowerDNS, I might be able to help, or at least mention you to other PowerDNS users.