anyone else had the issue that the in-addr.arpa delegation for the IP address range assigned by arpnetworks doesn't seem to actually point to arpnetworks (points to some other customer) ? and by 'other customer' I mean - someone other than arpnetworks, not using their network eg: 91.79.208.in-addr.arpa everybody asleep in the USA? wtapped: let me look into that weird, ARIN seems to have not updated that... I was thinking the same earlier when I checked back up to ARIN level to see where it was pointed no great hurry also, in the portal, I note that I can't stick a - char into the reverse DNS entry our convention is normally to have skins-ns04.skins.net as we're a single IP setup, can I just request that manually on a ticket? wtapped: no dash huh? that's a bug, I'll fix now (just for reference, we've picked you guys for this small dns server role precisely because you've got great routes and great latency into australia and china) nice! :) re the dash - the portal says that it'll only accept alphabet, numbers and dots and it errors when you stick a dash in there with a hostname like the one I mentioned yep validates_format_of :content, :with => /^[0-9a-zA-Z\.\-]*$/, :message => 'can only contain numbers, letters, dashes and \'.\'', :if => Proc.new { |dns_record| if dns_record.type =~ /(PTR|NS|CNAME)/ true end } I just added the '\-' to the regex ;) thanks I'll change it, then... - :with => /^[0-9a-zA-Z\.]*$/, - :message => 'can only contain numbers, letters, and \'.\'', + :with => /^[0-9a-zA-Z\.\-]*$/, + :message => 'can only contain numbers, letters, dashes and \'.\'', should work now I was thinking it was a bit narrow given the normal tendency to use dashes occasionally thanks np i wonder what i was thinking not allowing dashes... ;) bam, done nice ARIN says my network mod template is approved (containing NS changes), that may take some time to propagate though k example good route into the heart of communist china: 182.18.68.10 (traceroute it) 200ms into china is basically unheard of anywhere I've seen the lowest I've otherwise seen is sub 100 from rackspace in hong kong for us it's going via any2 in LA the rackspace one? nah from your network so i learn of 182.18.68.10 through Trit Networks, which is had from Xeex, then from "CNCGROUP China169 Backbone" heh straight into the belly of the beast LOL anyway, I'm sure you've got better things to be doing than traceroutes with a $20 customer at 3am in the morning... thanks for your help just as a final thing, check this from europe to that same IP address 30 61.49.43.146 (61.49.43.146) 578.620 ms 586.409 ms 605.029 ms via sprintlink into china awesome this is the money shot 21 sl-gw29-ana-0-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.0.37) 162.078 ms 162.046 ms 162.030 ms 22 sl-china6-4-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.54.74) 567.514 ms 568.442 ms 400ms in a single hop is like going back in time in network terms ouch, 1/2 second into China, I wouldn't like that latency Its 1/2 second to Australia - I don't mind that much though. I've got my stuff fairly well tuned so the actual processing time for a page doesn't noticibly add onto that time. I'm probably going to redo my website once I finish the webapp I am working on just now though. Time to get rid of most of the PHP stuff. From various places in the UK, that Chinese IP seems to be about 300-350ms away, and that includes 150ms to get to west coast USA up_the_irons: is now my sole hosting provider up_the_irons: I'm spreading the word here for you at the office =) arp would be my client's solo provider, if only he had some equipment that wasn't in LA. :) I'm building up some BCP in texas with elastichosts. the *second* best provider of full-access VPS boxes. :) :) root oops. wrong window ohh yea, you're a bad girl aren't you!?! oops. wrong window Cg8LQamb oops. hurrrrrrrrrrrrr. Jlqb9iFr9wHrBv7ZmO9rodJxMXChAgAx7eOPfaXdUSCW oops wow. the mfsinstall makes a root-on-zfs much easier except you are then running a non-standard kernel I guess I could compile a generic one it built a system in about 5 minutes though, isnteasd of the 20 I take by hand ... http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/ RandalSchwartz: yeah, zfsinstall is great, I use it too I'd use anything that avoids sysinstall :) ok - flight boards in 10 minutes... time to start winding down