BurningbirdI was able to add SMTP authentication to my installed mail system, which means people will have to log in to send email as well as receive it. This should thwart the misbegotten sons of diseased camels that are spammers. I found that the Wayward Weblogger co-op isn’t the only server that had some technical […]
Managed to make it from San Francisco to St. Louis in two days, but I’m tired, Very tired. I have photos and stories, but unfortunately, I came home and found that the co-op server was hit. The open Sendmail door, unfortunately, but from the nature of what I’m seeing, it looks like the hit to […]
My DNS change to the new server switched over in mid-post, and that created some interesting results. I’m still recovering from them. Note to self: take a break from weblogging next time you switch servers. Once this all stabilizes I’ll move any outstanding comments and trackbacks from the old server to the new one so […]
Recovered from the Wayback machine. I received an email from Kevin Marks, one of the new members of the Wayward Weblogger Co-op this morning about a posting Steven Den Beste wrote. It would seem that a person running a small hosting service is in violation of MT’s license. According to den Beste: A couple of days […]
I have hit a roadblock in the server setup, specifically wildcard DNS entries (to allow things such as weblog.burningbird.net, coop.burningbird.net, and so on), as well as sendmail issues and external email. Everything else seems to be set but that sendmail is a showstopper. My hope is to get help from my readership, but barring that, […]