DynDNS’s updater utility keeps a log of every time it has pushed a new IP to their servers. Since I have a shoddy internet connection I use this to log how many times I’ve disconnected each day and when it happened. Occasionally I need to access these logs and reset them after making tweaks to [...]
With the blazing speeds offered by Google’s open DNS servers there is absolutely no reason to not use them. Setting up your Ubuntu or any other Debian based Linux distribution to use these DNS servers is incredibly easy. I will be showing you the command line method as it will work on both your desktop [...]
I recently had to set up wildcard hosting on one of my Ubuntu servers. Previously I had only done this on FreeBSD so I had to do a bit of research to find out what the best method would be. It turns out the solution is quite simple and elegant. Now why would you need [...]
