As part of the PowerDNS on Rails project, and improving our own DNS infrastructure, I sat out today to configure 4 new DNS servers around the world. This will move a lot of our DNS traffic out of South Africa, while keeping some servers locally on...

Strange days we live in, especially when our browsers trip of bugs in encryption libraries on the servers… David Smalley neatly pointed out how upgrading OpenSSL to at least 0.9.8h solves the cryptic Firefox 3 SSL errors we’ve been seeing on some our...