There’s a lot of activity on BlueSky lately, one of the Twitter/X alternatives. Like Mastodon (another Twitter/X alternative, we’ve been following for awhile), your identifier is based on a hostname – which opens the door to integrating with it a custom domain via the DNS. A nice feature they have over there on BlueSky […]
Tips and Tricks
Optimizing DNS Performance: TTL Strategies to Reduce Query Count on a DNS Zone
In terms of DNS (Domain Name System) management and optimizing DNS performance, one of the primary concerns is reducing the query load on DNS servers while maintaining performance and reliability. A key factor in this balancing act is the Time to Live (TTL) setting for DNS records. TTL determines how long a DNS record is […]
Email Forwarding Slowdowns: What You Can Do When It Happens
Starting last Friday (May 17th), some members who were email forwarding to their Rogers mailboxes started reporting slowdowns or being unable to receive email via their email forwarders. It turned out that Yahoo (Rogers outsources their email to Yahoo) was rejecting email from some of our forwarders with the message: Remote-MTA: dns; mta6.am0.yahoodns.net Diagnostic-Code: smtp; […]
Raising the identity theft bar when traveling
We are traveling at the moment, and I just went down to the hotel business center to print off a document. This hotel is using Microsoft boxes, so as I’m floundering around looking for how to access my USB stick, I end up in a browser and I see the desktop. On top of a […]
Using DNS to validate crypto addresses in fundraisers
Whether it’s for trucker protests or defending against an invasion: crypto addresses need to be validated Fundraising via cryptocurrency is officially a thing, in fact it has been going on for years. It burst into the public awareness with the Canadian trucker protest in Ottawa, when Bitcoin fundraising platform Tallycoin started up a fundraiser for […]
How we migrated an entire WordPress site with no admin access
With our recent ArticNames acquisition we inherited a few clients who wanted to consolidate their websites here. One of them is a cabal of retired or semi-retired policy big wigs who write pseudonymously under the moniker Barrelstrength, (their web host was a completely different company, otherwise all of the following would have been moot). Their […]
