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Handy DNS checking tool

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

One of our customers has setup a handy DNS checking tool, which doesn’t require a subscription payment.   It’s handy for diagnosing DNS issues, including Parent servers, SOA and NS records, and also MX and WWW.

You can find the tool at http://www.checkmydns.biz/

Daniel Keighron-Foster, Technical Director.

Don’t shout at your hard disks!

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Sun engineer Brendan Gregg has made an interesting discovery, posted on his blog (with youtube attachment of course) at http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/unusual_disk_latency, that disks suffer high I/O latency when subjected to vocal outbursts.

Something to bear in mind the next time your server has you in a fit of rage :)