Bigbro's foray into the scary world of blogging
16 08 2006
Tonight we decided to go to a session in the wilds of Wicklow. A taxi was duly booked to take us there, but was unavailable to bring us home again at 12:30am. Neither were any other taxis - useful++ (inappropriately...)
We walked home - with a guitar. Seb's knowledge of the local geography was optimistic. Fortunately, some other locals who had a more realistic view of directions were quick to tell us to turn around and retrace our steps as we were heading in the wrong direction. Seb's boundless curiosity led him to ask the helpful local where we had, in fact, been heading. "Wexford!" came the one word reply. Suffice it to say, Wexford - lovely as it is - was not on our travel itinerary for the evening.
We got home. We got wet. We got no tea. We found some inflatable beds. We got some sleeping bags. We were happy.
A good night was had by all.
posted at: 01:41 | path: /music | permanent link to this entry
Like many people and corporations, I use a .local TLD for internal DNS. It's neat, tidy and makes it entirely obvious as to which addresses are resolvable internally and which are available outside the LAN / HAN / MAN. Unfortunately, Apple decided to hijack the .local TLD for Rendevous, now renamed to Bonjour, with the result that normal DNS resolution will silently fail for any hosts with a .local TLD. Fortunately, there appears to be a way to reinstate your DNS functionality without interfering too much with the operation of Rendevous/Bonjour.
A quick look in the /etc/resolver/ directory reveals that the OS X resolver supports DNS name specific resolvers. So, for signal2noise.local, my local domain, I just create a file called /etc/resolver/signal2noise.local with contents similar to a standard resolv.conf. Works a treat and doesn't kill Rendevous - winner.
posted at: 01:32 | path: /technical | permanent link to this entry
