Category: Networking

  • Canada domain name registry scam

    I have been frustrated with this  Domain Scam for a long time now. I have a few domain names, and I happen to be in Canada.  There is a company called “Domain Registry of Canada” that mails out official-looking envelopes (it looks like a government-issue brown windowed envelope) to everyone that has WHOIS information indicating they…

  • Great VPS Experience

    I have been using shared hosting from 1 & 1 for a few years now. No big complaints (except their domain management page is terrible) but I needed a bit more flexibility. I suppose shared hosting with its inherent limitations helps you develop a certain way, but I wanted a bit more. For one, I…

  • Raspberry Pi – gone WiFi

    I was using an older WRT54G as a client/bridge for my Raspberry Pi to my home network.  It was working OK, except it would skip and stutter when playing back MythTV streams. I didn’t think a USB dongle would prevent that, but it would be nice to replace the complexity of the router with a…

  • Local DNS on dd-wrt

    My Linksys N400 started getting slow and completely stopped responding this morning.  The only way I could get back into it was with a 30-second pin reset. I lost all of my DHCP reservations, of course, but those were a lot easier to restore than local DNS. I set my local search domain to “lan”…