Archives for March 2008
MOTDs are boring
10 March 2008 | Planet Ubuntu, Random | 3 Responses
I’ve decided my MOTD has gotten stale. What better to do with your free time than to look up escape sequences?
Bringing annoyances to the terminal, one color code at a time.
Snow.
8 March 2008 | Planet Ubuntu, Random | 7 Responses
Yesterday morning at a hotel, I woke up to prepare for a presentation. I looked out the window and there was a light snow. No problem.
Skip to noon of that day. A winter storm warning is in effect. 8 to 10 inches of snow expected. Okay, we can still make it out of Columbus.
By 4 PM, a blizzard warning was in effect. 12 to 15 inches projected by the end of Saturday (today).
This morning, I woke up to a level 3 snow emergency (only emergency personnel allowed on the roads). Everything is covered in snow, and it doesn’t look like it is going to stop.
How bad did the snow hit the rest of you in Ohio or the Midwest?
The dog seems to like it.
SSH loves rDNS
4 March 2008 | Planet Ubuntu, Random | 6 Responses
Since a few weeks ago, every time I would run SSH to sign into my server I would have to wait about a minute before I could even get a key/password prompt. The problem never really went away, so I contacted my ISP.
After a few email exchanges with some SSH debug logs and traceroutes, they added a reverse DNS record to see if it helped. Strangely enough, it did. I’ve never had a reverse DNS entry associated with my IP, and I’ve never had any trouble with it in the past. Only recently did connections start to halt because of it.
So, if you don’t have a reverse DNS entry on your IP and have been noticing slow SSH connections, call up or email your ISP to get one added. You will love your connection that much more.