Register.com’s nameservers seem to have been the target of a adDoS attack, whatever that is. (A)synchronous? (A)symmetrical? I need to look into that. Whatever caused the outage last night seems to continue to be causing problems this afternoon – either that or there are bad records cascading now. It’s on Twitter too.
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Register.com nameserver issues
Using DNSStuff.com to check root level nameserver A-records for register.com (my registrar and nameserver) I got this response: Generated by http://www.DNSstuff.com at 19:28:34 GMT on 02 Apr 2009. How I am searching: Searching for register.com A record at h.root-servers.net [128.63.2.53]: Got referral to j.gtld-servers.net. (zone: com.) [took 438 ms]Searching for register.com A record at j.gtld-servers.net.Continue reading “Register.com nameserver issues”
FDA has RSS feed for food recalls
I am loving this. I just went to check on the pistachio recall. I was checking out a link to FDA recall notices when I found this: http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/rssRecalls.xml I’m kind of stoked on that – a perfect utilization of news feed technology. Now if we could just get the FDA to use Twitterfeed to pushContinue reading “FDA has RSS feed for food recalls”
“Old Custer,” by Eli Cash book review on goodreads.com
I went looking for people who’d posted the famous Eli Cash quote, “Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is… maybe he didn’t?” I got some good results. My favorite so far was the one on Good Reads. Someone has posted a review of the fictional work, “Old Custer” byContinue reading ““Old Custer,” by Eli Cash book review on goodreads.com”
Cancer vaccine developed… in Cuba?!?
What a weird world we live in. Sitting at the doorstep of the world’s largest domestic economy, yet stripped of the right to legitimate trade with that nation, Cuba has been forced to seek some products on its own. To some countries, the products of our pharma companies are our greatest export. Unable to acquireContinue reading “Cancer vaccine developed… in Cuba?!?”
