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it's been a busy night, but BLOG space is available to those whom inquirer

26 February, 2007 04:58 CST6CDT

Cross-posted from my personal blog (http://myside.myspew.com/):

It has been a busy night for me indeed.  My mission was to enable LifeType's BLOG sub-domains.

I thought this was going to be an easy step with GoDaddy's DNS utilities.  However, I quickly realized that I was unable to create a wildcard A name record nor an alias.  Frustrated, and sure as hell I could do it, I called customer support.

The representative had to call a different level support guru.  When he got back to me, he said he would make the changes while I was on the phone.  He failed, trying everything I already did.  He was back on the phone with the guru's and was then told that I would need a virtual or dedicated server package.  Obviously bumbed out at this, I said thank you, but by.   This after he told me if I were to purchase these services, tech support would not help with setup, but hinted that it is possible with the user's available tools.

Playing with the A records a bit, I realized that I could assign *.mypew.com and a private IP.  Before this I was using just (*) and the shared IP, hoping it would resolve correctly.

Let me mention before I go on..  I tried playing with the .htaccess files trying to change some Apache site variables, but they all failed miserably making my sight inaccessible.

Now all I needed was a dedicated IP.  This costs just a couple dollars a month, and worth it if you need some major DNS tweaks.  So far it has been fun.

So I created the record: *.myspew.com ip.ip.ip.ip  Look it up yourself, if you wish.

I then proceeded to my .htaccess file to insert some nasty redirections and alias information.  However, I found none of these changes were needed so I later removed the messy declarations.

I changed a few settings in LifeType, and WALA!  The 3rd level domains are now the BLOG owner's user name.  All is working great.

Why did I do this?  I figured if any friends, or friends of the friends of mine reading this wants a BLOG, it might be available to them.  Hint Hint, drop me an e-mail if you want a BLOG on this domain.  This goes for anyone on the EINSTEIN@HOME FreeBSD team also.

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For those of you wondering what the EINSTEIN@HOME Project is:

Einstein@Home is a program that uses your computer's idle time to search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO gravitational wave detector. It also searches for radio pulsars in binary systems, using data from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Einstein@Home is a World Year of Physics 2005 and an International Year of Astronomy 2009 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations.

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