DNS Mania
Posted by hardwarehank, Sat Sep 02 11:26:02 UTC 2006
Well, I was stumbling today and found OpenDNS. I was excited to find that I could make it coexist with OpenNIC in my dhclient configuration. Here’s the resultant line that makes all this magic happen:
prepend domain-name-servers 63.226.12.96, 208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220;
So now, when I use dhcp to grab an IP, I end up prepending these nameservers onto my resolv.conf. OpenDNS makes spam sites and domain squatters disappear. And it makes the average request a lot faster.
Yesterday, bish0p and I sat down and started work on MyDNS. It turns out that the db structure isn’t all that bad, so it will be fairly straightforward to build a Rails/Camping interface for it. I already started one in Camping called Beacon. I was going to name it ChunkyBeacon, but #camping decided against that.
In other news, I’m going to leave Fairbanks for a while soon. It will be exciting to go on this adventure into the real world for four months.
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