One of the things I noticed when I received a 32-bit ASN was that I was unable to use my ASN in my BGP communities. I’m not the only one who has noticed this, and work has begun on a Draft Standard, Large BGP Community to address this shortcoming.
I ran into an obscure limitation in PowerDNS 4.0 authoritative server recently. I have one nameserver which also acts as a slave to two other sets of zones with are transfered using AXFR. Some of those zones are DNSSEC enabled, and PowerDNS is only able to handle DNSSEC on the first backend loaded. This was causing several forward and reverse zones to fail to serve the DNSSEC records along with the queried records, and DNSSEC validation to partially fail.
PowerDNS makes a mighty fine authoritative, and also recursive DNS server. They also recently added a DNS-aware DNS load balancer. This article deals with load balancing multiple backend caches to keep all of them hot and working the most efficiently.
If you're using Slack then you should already know how easy it is to integrate almost anything into slack using its web APIs. If you're not already using Slack, what are you waiting for?
I recently installed VMware ESXi 6.0 Update 02 aka VMware vSphere Hypervisor on a server, and using the new VMware Host Client at https://hostip/ui/ was able to fully set up a Debian 8/Jessie guest using only the trial license. The HTML console was quite functional, and the OSX Remote Console application also launched and connected correctly and quickly.
