WSGI is the Python 'WebServer Gateway Interface', which is a standard interface between webservers and Python web applications. The idea is that you write yourapp as a WSGI app, then glue it to the web interfaces of your choice:CGI-BIN, SCGI , a standalone testing webserver, whatever. The WSGI stuff encourages a stacking model, wheremodular middleware can be transparently inserted above applications tohandle various more or less generic things.

(Ian Bicking gives examples of a bunch of WSGI middleware here

Through the pca news page I found out someimpending changes to access to Solaris patches. There are two changes:

• InfoDoc #83061 says that from mid-July, we'll need to register for a free SunOnline Account in order to get patches.
• InfoDoc #82023 says that Sun will be turning off anonymous ftp access to patchesin late August.

I'm honestly not sure how these two interact, since it's hard toenforce having accounts with anonymous ftp

Today's winner of the amusing hostname prize is ' GE-queer-A.gay.it 'aka ' server1-gay-it.it.net ', which is what the IP address 151.1.32.3currently claims to be in SMTP (the first name) and its PTR records (thesecond name; there is no matching A record).

I do have to wonder what sort of naming scheme gaverise to this. (It has neighbors with different

This week, we:

• got 12,612 messages from 249 different IP addresses.
• handled 17,714 sessions from 803 different IP addresses.
• received 245,591 connections from at least 48,624 different IPaddresses.
• hit a highwater of 8 connections being checked at once.

Connection volume is up substantially from last week , although nothing else seems tobe up much (especially the highwater). The per day table: