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2004-07-21

secondary.org

It's happened again! DNS LAMENESS.
Why is it so hard to find a dependable, free secondary DNS provider? Just over a year since switching away from secondary.com (why?), and just about 4 months after signing up with secondary.org I discover that their server dns.secondary.org is now LAME for every zone I used them for. So I go to their website and wouldn't you know it, they've redesigned it!
Bah! Time to redelegate.

(Update July 21st)
After emailing them and not hearing a peep I checked again this morning. Seems someone there got a clue and put the login page and management forms back up. However, the DNS server is still LAME for my zones so it's little concession except to offer a snippet of hope that they might fix it completely.
-oo-

2004-07-12

Email security run amok [part 2]

2004-07-12 09:21:16 SSL verify error: depth=0 error=self signed certificate cert=/C=US/ST=Washington/L=Yakima/O=Five K Computers/OU=Web-ster/CN=mail.fivek.com/emailAddress=admin@fivek.com
2004-07-12 09:21:22 1Bk3YL-0006UE-BS H=mail.webstercorp.com (mail.fivek.com) [206.129.139.5] F=<> rejected after DATA: This message contains malware (Worm.SomeFool.P)


First time I've seen this - an attempted virus delivery via a TLS-secured transmission. More security run amok!

2004-07-01

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I have little to say about this other than it is intriguing and I wish I had more time to read it!