A moderately productive morning

[mdlbear]

Got up at some ungodly hour with a brain that wouldn't shut up about my financial problems -- I'll get to that somewhere downwhen. Spent a moderately productive morning troubleshooting the subdomains of savitzky.net, finally resolved by moving my DNS hosting from GoDaddy to DreamHost (where the actual HTML resides). Subdomains for Kat and Colleen are up, but currently content-free. steve.savitzky.net is, of course, alive and well.

Spent some time last night setting up rsyncd on my fileserver and poking a tunnel through the firewall so I could upload from DH via a CGI script without requiring an ssh connection. That's essential if I want other people besides me to work on websites. The CGI remains to be written but should be straightforward.

Dreamhost's DNS control panel isn't as good as GoDaddy's: no AAAA records for one thing, and not as much control generally. Plus it's tied to their hosting, so it does clever things like make a web directory when you add a subdomain. And the main entry for the zone is always one of their servers, so I had to move savitzky.net off the DSL line and make an A record for dsl.savitzky.net. Darn. Needed doing anyway. It's just a lot less hassle when you can set up the web server configuration at the same time as the DNS; well worth it for a domain that really isn't going to be used for anything but web and eventually email.

Comments

what is this about?

[silentlblue.livejournal.com]

What is this entry about? I am wondering why you write stuff like this? Who do you write it for?

Mel

Re: what is this about?

[mdlbear]

Are you a real person, or are you just trolling for links? If I don't hear back by morning I'll report this comment as spam.

I write for the people who have me on their friends lists, obviously.

Re: what is this about?

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, I am sorry. This is not spam. I did not mean to be rude to you. I just set up an account yesterday and was following links about the place, it was late at night and I saw your journal. I am not sure how I cam e to find it.

I just did not understand why some one would put stuff like that in a journal. I am not saying that I think they should not, I am saying I do not understand it. I guess I was just trying to learn something.

Sorry.

Re: what is this about?

[mdlbear]

I've answered your question directly so that you'll get proper notification; you weren't logged in when you posted this one. You need to click the "remember me" checkbox on the login screen. You probably got here through a random search.

Re: what is this about?

[mdlbear]

[I'm replying here as well because you weren't logged in when you replied to me.]

That's ok then; questions are always welcome. It's just that I do get a fair amount of spam in my comments, usually trying to accumulate links to porn sites to raise their score on search engines, and your profile contains little else.

I'm an amateur singer/songwriter, a professional computer scientist, and a science fiction fan. Many of the folks who have me on their friends list are interested in things like web hosting (DreamHost), domain registrars (GoDaddy), the Domain Name System (DNS) and related subjects.

I also post about my recently-released CD (see userpic), my family, and a wide range of other subjects.

Your profile says that you're deaf, so you're probably not interested in the music. I recently went to a music convention where judifilksign (Judi Miller) was performing as a sign interpreter - you may be able to find some videos of her on YouTube.