Comon har her til formiddag publiceret en artikel om ORDB.org. Den handler kort fortalt om at folk mister mail fordi ORDB.org er begyndt at returnere falske positive svar på alle forespørgsler. Der er et par, mener jeg, fejl i den artikel. Fejl som redaktionen ikke er enige i. I stedet for at diskutere med journalisten i deres forum har jeg valgt at offentliggøre mine synspunkter her. Comon har tre (offentliggjorte) kilder til deres artikel. ...
The Ubuntu team has announced the release of Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support (codename Hardy Herron), yay! I have been running Hardy since somewhere around Tribe 2 on my primary workstation and besides some problems with VMware Workstation it has been a smooth ride. I run Openbox as my desktop environment so I have noticed any real differences in that department but it seems that RANDR works better now allowing me to just hibernate the computer (I use an external screen at work) instead of having to reboot it. ...
This is not new news, ORDB.org ceased to exist on December 18., 2006 What is new is that as of 25/03/2008 15:50 CET relays.ordb.org started returning 127.0.0.2 for every query – in effect causing mail servers still using ORDB.org to reject mails. Almost 16 months after the announcement of ORDB.org shutting down this has still caught many people by surprise and started a public outcry. To summarize those threads people are now blaming the ORDB.org crew for their own incompetence and shortsightedness (words like stupid, dickish, terrorists and worse) claiming that ORDB.org is costing them money. No! You are costing ORDB.org and their associates money. For 16 months the relays.ordb.org zone has been using around 4 MB/s of traffic (that amounts to more than 33 GB per day!). Yet people are now complaining that a service they got for free is not working the way they wanted. ...