Multicast DNS

Posted February 29, 2012 By Landis V

http://www.multicastdns.org/

Might make a good read sometime

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Jaluri – A Network and Cisco Blog Aggregator

Posted February 28, 2012 By Landis V

http://jaluri.com/

Seems to be an aggregation of sites I visit fairly frequently.  Need to take a look to see if there’s any interesting content they link to that I don’t already follow, or if there is original content.

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2012-02-26

Posted February 26, 2012 By Landis V

Finally got around to checking out the leak on the Suburban this afternoon, found that I had reused a Corbin clamp that was out of round on the input to the primary heater core input. I couldn’t find a 3/4″ hose clamp, but asked on FaceBook and a neighbor replied that they had one in less than ten minutes. Just reminded me what a great little town this is and how much I enjoy being here. Replaced that clamp and it would appear that my coolant loss has stopped. Here’s hoping.

Mom, girls, and I went for a walk around the block this afternoon. A little cool and breezy, but it was nice to get out of the house for a little bit.
Wireless is driving me nuts on my CR48 since I set up a virtual AP on my DD-WRT router and/or since I set up an old P4 system as an XBMC host, and I at least managed to get the electrical outlet wired in under the stairs where I’m planning to set up my “comm closet”. Now I just need to get my patch panel mounted and one cabling run.

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Best Linux Distros

Posted February 23, 2012 By Landis V

http://www.makeuseof.com/pages/best-linux-distributions

Read an article similar to this recently, and can’t quite figure out where I misplaced it.  Either way, thinking of loading up one of my newer boxes with Linux Mint to see how it will handle as a daily driver.

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DNS Hosting Providers

Posted February 7, 2012 By Landis V

GoDaddy – $2.99/mo, generally feature rich, does lack dynamic DNS support.

ZoneEdit – quite possibly free for present needs, supports dynamic DNS.

Dyn – $30/yr, easy/obvious client support, some (admittedly high) limitations on querys and the like.

easyDNS – $20/yr, appears to support dynamic, (high) limits.

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Seriously, Cisco…

Posted February 3, 2012 By Landis V

As a whole you’re really becoming a giant frustration. Your secure transfer protocols still aren’t VRF aware (client applications – i.e., scp) after how many years and incantations of IOS. The sole benefit I get from maintaining SmartNet contracts on equipment (software updates… TAC would be a joke, but it’s not funny) is becoming pointless, as the updates are just as broken as the software the boxes shipped with, they’ve just shuffled the bugs to new locations in the code. You finally get a system to the point where it’s just about stable, and you end-of-life it. Your supply chain is among the worst I’ve ever seen, to put it nicely. And with the last couple of generations of ISR’s, I’ve even had some doubts about the quality of the hardware. I’ve dealt with a few really sharp individuals in your organization over the years, and I hate to take anything away from them, but this slide on the whole makes me wonder if it’s just rime to find something… anything… else.

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