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Entries from October 19th, 2009

Managed DNS services showdown

October 19th, 2009 · No Comments · hosting

A time comes when it makes more business sense to outsource DNS. While one can use a domain registrars to manage and host dns they do not always offer best performance or even offer SLA’s. We will compare a couple of companies that specialize at DNS hosting only. DynDNS – comprehensive services offerings – no [...]

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Change Squid outgoing address

October 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Installation, sysadmin, Tips and Tricks

Typically Squid caching proxy server listen and outgoing IP address are the same. Sometimes, for various reasons we want to alter the outgoing IP address. The new address must first be brought up as an interface on the squid server. In squid.conf look for tcp_outgoing_address line, uncomment it and replace the default IP value with [...]

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