00:58 <ec> FUCK

00:58 <ec> Zerigo is shutting down, in TWO DAYS, without notifying me

00:59 <jfhbrook> that's pretty insane ec

00:59 <ec> frantically rushing to export my data,

00:59 <jfhbrook> who are you switching to? do you know?

00:59 <jfhbrook> two days is outrageous

00:59 <ec> they suggest a ‘sync to Route 53’ option, which requires Amazon to activate my account — takes who knows how long,

01:00 <ec> googled around for scripts to use their API to dump, looks like maybe they already shut down API access (getting UNAUTHORIZED no matter what I do),

01:00 <ec> arghaegrdhtfjygu

01:00 <ec> I only found out by accident!

01:00 <ec> I'm leaving town soon and wanted to set up a VPN and dynamic DNS so I can backup via Time Machine when I'm in Alaska over the next few months,

01:00 <ec> and I was looking to see if my long-time DNS provider had dynamic-DNS support, and BOOM

01:00 <ec> http://zerigo.com

01:00 <jfhbrook> jesus

01:01 <jfhbrook> how many domains do you have?

01:01 <jfhbrook> can you realistically do it by-hand in a day?

01:01 <ec> idk couple hundred

01:01 <ec> nah not that many, maybe a hundred

01:04 <jfhbrook> >_<

01:38 <ljharb> that's a lot of domains

01:38 <ljharb> i think i have like 40

01:40 <jfhbrook> I have, uh, 2 now

01:41 <jfhbrook> jesusabdullah.net and trashfire.xyz

01:41 <jfhbrook> I'm gonna let one of those lapse pretty soon

01:41 <ec> trashier lmao

01:41 <ec> I love that you say ‘one of those’

01:41 <ec> can't decide which to stick with, jf? :P

01:41 <jfhbrook> nah nah

01:41 <jfhbrook> trashfire is just a great url

01:41 <jfhbrook> like it's not as good as trashfi.re would have been but that's ok

01:44 <jfhbrook> trashfire.xyz is currently a broken hack project so I'm gonna just like, host my personal site on there

01:44 <jfhbrook> except probably turn it into a wiki

01:45 <ec> AHHH ALL OF MY EMAIL IS GOING TO HELL

02:27 <ec> MY GODDAMN REGISTRAR DOESN'T SUPPORT GLUE RECORDS EXCEPT BY MANUALLY HANDLING THE SETUP OVER E-MAIL

02:27 <ec> AND THEY'RE IN NEW ZEALAND,

02:27 <ec> AND THEY DON'T HAVE A PHONE-NUMBER

02:28 <jfhbrook> idk what a glue record is

02:29 <ec> hack that solves the chicken-n-egg scenarios in DNS

02:29 <ec> it's only relevant for nameservers resolving other nameservers

03:04 <ec> AHHHHH THIS IS SUCH A CLUSTERFUCK

03:09 <ljharb> yeah wtf is a glue record

03:15 <ec> I'm the only person who knows this?

03:15 <ec> wow, that's a shock

03:16 <ec> ljharb: if your domain's nameservers are subdomains of the domain itself, you need additional ‘glue records’ at the TLD nameserver

03:16 <jfhbrook> I've mostly dealt with a records and cnames

03:16 <ec> sooooo if you have ljharbis.cool., and the nameservers are listed as ns1.ljharbis.cool. and ns2.ljharbis.cool.,

03:17 <ec> then DNS needs the cool. rootservers to *actually hold the IPs* for ns1.ljharbis.cool. etc, and they need to match what the servers at ns1.ljharbis.cool. hold for "ns1.ljharbis.cool."

03:17 <jfhbrook> you're hosting your own nameservers?

03:17 <jfhbrook> I thought you were using route 53

03:18 <ec> lol, obscuring the nameserver records — so-called “white-label nameservers”

03:18 <ec> so elliottcable.name, for instance, shows a.ns.yreality.net, instead of grsgtgnoh.angrsns516-awsdns525.fuckboy or whatever

04:04 <ljharb> ah gotcha

04:05 <ljharb> lol, .fuckboy

05:48 <ec> ljharb.fuckboy

05:48 <ec> come at me

05:48 <ec> buying that TLD brb

08:55 <pikajude> yo

08:55 <pikajude> who up

08:55 <pikajude> :b:

08:55 <pikajude> darn

16:31 <jfhbrook> lots of fun: typing 'whois fuckboy' into the terminal

16:31 <jfhbrook> probably less fun: curling the results

16:31 <pikajude> i love curling

16:31 <pikajude> it's such an accessible sport

16:44 <jfhbrook> never tried it

16:44 <pikajude> me neither