I'm in Vegas for a conference this week. Since the hotel's wired ports were borked, I looked to see what I could find on wireless.
Two of the SSID's advertised (with good signal, mind you) are advertisements. Connect to them, and you get an IP address. Browse _anywhere_ and you get (instead of your usual hotel wireless ToS/AUP and pricing page), a page advertising the local specials. The kind of specials where for $250 they'll come pick you up, and take you the "Steak House And Gentlemen's Club". Or various "premium adult web sites".
Gotta give'm points for ingenuity.
Oh, the other fun thing to see: Walking lit-up billboards, with screens mounted on people's backs. With screens on top of those screens, rising above the crowd, so you can seem the clearly, even at night, above the crowds.
I noticed that the sync was touching some files in .FileSync on the iDisk, so I guess that I lost net access during a sync and it left it in a damaged condition.
So, I chose to disconnect the iDisk, turn off Syncing, open a Finder with the iDisk mounted online, then opened iTerm (Terminal will do)
I navigated to my iDisk (in my case cd /Volumes/dotwaffle) and ran the following command:
sudo rm -rf .FileSync/ .TemporaryItems/ ._.TemporaryItems .com.apple.timemachine.supported
.. Living the dream of being sent to the big apple on the company dime1, hoping to not get mugged or murdered. The photo below has a Yahoo! sign - if/when we get bought, I wonder what will happen to it...
1 Okay, okay, so only kinda. I'm here for the OARC conference, and I'm spending an extra day and a half on my dime to contribute to the transient population problem.
This blog will have a green header if you're visiting from ipv4, and a blue header from ipv6.
I've made some changes on the system; more are coming. Specifically so far:
- goat.gigo.com is now accessible on ipv6.
- irc.gigo.com is now accessible on ipv6.
- mail primary MX is on ipv6; secondaries will be soon.
- I changed from djbdns to bind. Lemme know if you see anything funky. If you edit zones here on gigo.com, I'll only install them if it passes a basic "will it load" test (using named-checkzone).
- ns3 and ns4.gigo.com are deprecated; they are currently aliased to ns1.gigo.com
- I'm not publishing IPv6 NS records - waiting for word on whether I can get "glue" records published to .com for that.
I'm in the process of simplifying my DNS setup. I'm reducing the number of DNS servers I maintain down to two. Most of the domains are hosted by me for web/email as well - and if the host is down, the DNS isn't gonna matter quite so much. If *.gigo.com servers are hosting your dns domain, please update your domains to point at these two name servers:
- ns1.gigo.com (Located in Fremont, CA using HE.NET)
- ns2.gigo.com (Located in Sacramento, CA using CWO.COM)
I will still keep ns3 and ns4 around, but they won't be unique from the first two.
Jason-Feslers-computer:~ jfesler$ telnet gigo.com 22
Trying 216.218.228.114...
Connected to gigo.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.5p1 FreeBSD-20061110
^]
telnet> close
Connection closed.
Jason-Feslers-computer:~ jfesler$ telnet gigo.com 25
Trying 216.218.228.118...
Connected to mx2.gigo.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 goat.gigo.com ESMTP secondary mx only defers/rejects. postmaster@gigo.com
^]
telnet> close
Connection closed.
Jason-Feslers-computer:~ jfesler$
I have updated my previous
bitlbee challenge/response patch, to work on bitlbee 1.2. You can get it at http://gigo.com/ftp/pub/src/bitlbee-challenge-response.patch . Please let me know if you use it and find it useful.
Guys, the outage from 3/27/2008 23:45 to 3/28/2008 17:00 was due to a motherboard failure. More info is at http://status.gigo.com/ for those that care.
-jason
