DNS Mania
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.
