How not to set up your DNS (part 17)

Here is an interesting one that caused me to go digging into themoderate depths of DNS arcana:

; sdig ns just-dust.comdns1.name-services.com.dns2.name-services.com.dns3.name-services.com.dns4.name-services.com.dns5.name-services.com.; dig mx servidor134.just-dust.com[...];; [...] status: SERVFAIL

How to tell a DNS no data reply from a lame delegation

When you query an authoritative nameserver for a record that doesn'texist, what you get back is a reply with status NOERROR, the aa bit set, no ANSWER section, and the zone's SOA record asthe sole record in the AUTHORITY section. (And no ADDITIONAL section.)

When you query a nameserver for a record in a zone that it doesn'tserve, what you get back is a reply with status NOERROR, no ANSWERsection, some zone's NS records, and some


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The problem that built C++ (a thesis)

At least at one point, there were a lot of people who loudly couldn'tunderstand why C++ was still around as a going concern. After all,didn't Java have it beat hollow, as Java was a much more productiveobject oriented language to develop in?

Such people implicitly believe that that problem that built C++ is'building object oriented programs'; now that there was a well knownbetter solution to that problem, they couldn't see why C++ didn'


我唯一的小把戲

facebook裡似乎真的很多小東東,人際關係就在虛擬的網絡中,以「具體」(在虛擬的網絡中具體,算是如何的具體?)的小物件,以滿天花雨灑金錢的方式撒播出去。要wallis開聲教我「要在別人的wall上留言」,我真是一個太不interactive的老土

成年人,你們才是人渣


我一直覺得靑少年是無辜的。特別是關於毒品或濫藥的問題,基本上是成年人的罪行,卻經常由靑少年飽受懲罰。

澳門每隔一段時間就會破獲一些靑少年毒品派對或靑少年販毒集團,社會每每為這些事件譁然,但也只限於譁然,

The benefits of growing your toolbox

Although we weren't going to use our new gigabit backbone connection immediately, I wanted to check that we reallycould get something close to gigabit performance through it and thateverything was working smoothly. When you're doing network performancetesting, you really need to do it from a platform that you trust, sothat any slowness can be attributed to the stuff in the middle andnot to your end having issues.

As it happened, the most trustworthy machine for this was my officeworkstation. But since it was


宿命論

有一個人曾跟我說過:「男朋友,可能就在你 最不著力去找 的時候,他便會突然在眼前。」

雖然這人無色無相,但我相信他每一句說話。

不要問我原因,我就是信任他,沒人可以質疑他。

當我仍在猶疑,該堅持還是放手,忽然間

新聞

晚間新聞,愛丁堡廣場真的解封(算是本土行動難得一次兵不血刄的小勝),警方人員一邊放水,一邊有幾名少女拉人龍在其間穿插而過,這麼滑稽的畫面,那班在皇后的人真係傻的。

要趕文。頂我都過去玩下先。

青年,或者寵物

先看今日幾乎所有傳媒都有引述的,香港青年會關於皇后碼頭的問卷。昨晚無線的王大鈞一言道破玄機:這個所謂問卷調查, 不是隨機抽樣,而是由香港青年會會員派發的。 哇,現在問卷調查墮落到什麼程度了,連隨機都可以慳