Monthly Archives: September 2012

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Thoughts on the GoDaddy DNS DDOS Attack, Outage, and DNS hosting options

September 10, 2012  in Internet / Networking / Security  tagged dns / Hosting / Internet / Security by Greg

So with the big outage today, I did some quick looking around. Just wondered if there were any DNS registrars that have decent security practices. It’s tough to find. Not that the attack on GoDaddy was a security breach, it wasn’t. It was a Denial of Service attack, not a […]

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UnixODBC on Ubuntu 12.04 broken and unable to connect error 3

September 7, 2012  in Databases / Linux  tagged Databases / Linux / ODBC / ubuntu by Greg

Recently I upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04. We had UnixODBC running fine in 10.04, but something changed because the odbc drivers couldn’t be found.  I got an error while running isql: isql -v gregtest [01000][unixODBC][Driver Manager]Can’t open lib ‘/usr/lib/odbc/libmyodbc.so’ : file not found We also couldn’t run our Acucobol apps anymore […]

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