Ramblings of Narc

So, I must be the last person on the Internet to have heard of webmin — or, at least, the last person who administers a bunch of Linuxen to do so.

After installing it yesterday on Bast, I discovered, among other things, that webmin has a neat little interface to configure BIND. Since that was basically the one thing I hated having to manage on my own, I decided I’d give it a try — and boy, did it ever work nicely. I’ve managed to transfer the narc.ro zone from the shitty MS server to a nice, neat little BIND9-managed zone on bast.

On top of that, I’ve finally segregated *.narc.ro and *.internal.narc.ro, which makes the DNS a lot cleaner.

In other recent news, however, I did a stupid (this is where the “oopsies” part of the title comes in): I had to change Themis’s IP from 192.168.0.1 to .100 (well, I didn’t have to, I was just lazy), and… I forgot to change the port forward for the DNS. Which ended up breaking my e-mail deliveries, as well as most of everything else related to narc.ro, I’m sure. Luckily, since I also had a reason to change that forward, I caught it relatively quickly (yeah, it only took a couple of days, heh).

So if you were wondering why you couldn’t reach narc.ro, or why your RSS reader was having trouble getting updates, now you know. Aren’t ya glad?