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As some of the people know Google has an IPv6 only site but it’s kinda limited. They also claim that their www.google.com can be supported over IPv6 , it’s just that they have a scheme for ISPs to enroll to get AAAA records released to their DNS servers.

Now when you are using your own DNS server you are in disadvantage.

So to have *.google.com and *.google.co.uk I have created zones on my server using IPv6 address from ipv6.google.com . I have not included IPv4 address as well … I don’t need it, I’m full IPv6 here.

You may also consider adding zone for your language/national google domain like google.pl for polish.

Full article has configuration snippets used by me with my BIND server . Click More…

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Yesterday and today I had an early start to my day, 5 am to be exact.

This was due to new F1 season 2009 starting in Australia.

It was a great show, with so much new stuff, new regulations, new technologies, new leaders.

Brown GP which can out of Honda won and now Honda should just bite themselves. It looks great and I can’t wait for next race in Malaysia.

What, it’s like a week since I had my first flying lesson and I am feeling really strong that I want to go back in the air!

I so curse that I have to go abroad for a week or two before I can take another lessons. It’s bloody addictive, love it!

I’m counting my days … nothing else really matters…

It looks like S.M.A.R.T has told me that drive in my server is failing. Actually I’ve noticed that when my NFS server just stopped sharing data from it. Still, it was a bad sign, quick look at logs and clear failure messages. Cool.

Short trip to a highstreet shop – Maplin and I’ve grabbed a 1TB Hitachi ( I will never buy Seagate again ). I’ve picked up an Air Duster and 12cm fan as well just as I was there. Fan is for my new PC to keep disks cool.

Open the server, loads and loads of dust, Air Duster gets to work ( someone will kill me as it all came out and dispersed in a nice clean living room ). Swapping the drives. Starting the server.

It takes a bit longer for the server to startup as it was not restarted in ages and all timers told it to rescan all systems properly this time.

Starting Solaris … and my volume with missing disk is … OK … weird. Started zfs scrub on it , just to make sure. Finally it found out that it’s missing a copy, volume is degraded. zfs replace and the rebuild starts, tells me it will be an hour to mirror 750GB back on a new drive.

Now this failure got me thinking if I should replace my VM Host , it’s currently OpenSuse 10 with ancient version of Xen.

I’m wondering if I should put an ESX hypervisor or something else. Certainly my experience with ESX is that it’s rubbish at storage management. I am leaning towards OpenSolaris as it has a selection of hypervisors and storage management just proven to be a breeze.

Will see …

As mentioned in a previous post, I had a trial flying lesson booked for last Sunday. And it all went through, weather was really nice.

It was kinda crazy fast pace ( faster than what I would expect ). I met my Flight Instructor and strait away he started telling me about the basics of aircraft control. Minutes later we were on our way to the aircraft. A couple minutes later we were strapped in the seats and FI was doing some checks and starting the aircraft engine.

FI requested taxi and I was taxing … what ?! We got to the holding position and waited for runway to be vacated, a few more more checks and radio exchanges later and we are speeding on the runway … I didn’t realize that steering can be so sensitive at speed and for a while we where chasing snakes … then positive climb in the air. Woohoo! I’m kinda speechless. When we reached our intended altitude, FI shown me aircraft reaction to controls and then instructed me to take control.

I was feeling speechless, really. Listening to FI , following instructions, like a dream with an inexperienced execution on my behalf.

What really surprised me, was how much control and hands on I had during that flight. I even did approach for landing , maneuver which I always thought was damn hard and I would not be able to execute it. But with some, apparently discreet, help from FI we landed.

It was only after I left the Club for train station, it occurred to me that it was exactly the same when I had my first driving lesson. No BS, full dive in to a whole new world.

I really want to go back there, really. What is funny is that I realised that, after I landed.

What is next ?

I have delegation hanging over my head, so I will have to wait until I’m back from India. Then, quick booking for medical check in Gatwick ( I will go for JAR 1 Class ). If I get the cert I will have to take some time to find a suitable Flight School which eventually will get me on the commercial road. If not, BAFC will see me back, strait away.

Flying is great!

PS. I had a pleasure of flying Piper PA28-161 Warrior with Mr. John Hartill from British Airways Flying Club.

I’m an IPv6 user. I also, from time to time, use BitTorrent.

I was really surprised when I was downloading something recently. Surprise came from the number of IPv6 peers which I was connected to. About 10 of them IIRC. It’s great to see that I’m not the only one who has IPv6 enabled and working well.

Hope there will be more of us, it’s some much easier which out stupid NAT between people.

Work wise :

Companies which I work for recently decided to move into single location ( down from 2 ) , both sites have independent systems. The move date is set so early in time that there will be no time to integrate them at the time.

I am recruiting a Senior IT Tech/Admin in Delhi/Noida. If you think that working for dynamic, established, new/future media company is something on your radar and you know everything about computer systems, please drop me a comment.

Recent sites launched on our hosting systems are www.generatorfeandskill.com and www.icould.com very soon there will be a relaunch of www.rwdmag.com as well.

Not yet work wise:

A while ago, I decided that I will pilot aircraft. I had one trial flight booked for last Sunday, but it was cancelled due to weather conditions. I have rescheduled that for coming Sunday. I have a trial flight arrangement with British Airways Flying Club on a Piper Warrior. If you know good/cheap flight schools which can take me up to CPL or ATPL I would really appreciate.

Entertainment:

Recently I had a pleasure of watching season of Generation Kill. I can say that I loved it. Would like more.