Alan Blaine Whitney

Every sysadmin loves seeing these errors

hdd: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdd: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=95559021, sector=95559015
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 95559015
Buffer I/O error on device hdd1, logical block 11944869

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Nothing new here, but had forgot how easy it is to export to csv in mysql

SELECT * INTO OUTFILE 'result.csv' FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' FROM my_table;

Note that this file will be created on the mysql server, not the client.

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I let a domain expire by accident. I thought it had some type of auto-renew on it, which it did not, so it expired. I really wish they would have sent me a notice a few days before giving me a heads up, but that’s even okay.  My bad for not making sure that it would auto-renew and charge my credit card.

Here is why register.com did that really surprised me. Once my domain expired, they listed the name servers as ns2.expireddomains.register.com and ns1.expireddomains.register.com. These name servers will serve everything as 74.54.82.222, even www.google.com, with a one hour time to live. This is problematic for several reasons. One is that it can give the impression that something is resolving when it is not. Another is that records that once did not exist, now do.

The thing that really frustrated me though, was mail.  The listed name servers will give everything a MX record of grey-area.mailhostingserver.com.  This is a real mail server that accepts all mail.  So somebody can email you, and instead of getting a bounce, the email just disappears into the ether.  More than that they give it a 2 day time to live.  So even after you do renew the domain, your email is screwed up for two days.

I would imagine that at least one-third of expired domains are accidents and they get renewed.  So register.com in their wisdom, hose your email for two days for making a mistake.  More than that, I have given register.com $35 for 7 years on that domain, and use them for nothing other than pointing the dns to another’s name servers.

So I have left register.com and switched to another company.  Thanks register.com for nothing.

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