Network Security Blog

Well, my DNS issues brought to light one thing for me: I need to perform a configuration review of some of the more vital portions of my web server. I found a number of minor errors and exclusions in the named.conf file, and I still have problems with one or two services starting correctly after a reboot. Soon it will be time for a complete review of the system.

That would be nice, but now is the time for reality to interfere. I have two small, wonderful bundles of energy that live with me and take up quite a bit of my time. While I could do the review simply and quickly in a perfect world, the truth is, I will probably have to do a lot of relearning to see why I did some things the way I did in the first place. It’s hard to get any significant time alone in my house, so I’ll have to do both the review and relearning in small chunks.

So, for the next little while I will be tweaking stuff behind the scenes to make sure that it’s working to the best of my ability. I may break some features, but that will hopefully be a temporary condition. But I’m doing this in order to forego more serious issues in the future.