Michael Wheeler

realred_draco – Iodine, Disinfecting Our Wounds

Since I didn’t want to get charged $27.50 for 100MB of data on ReiverNet at the Oaks Auroa hotel (amazing place), I looked for some ways around the system. Before leaving I read up about ICMPTX( IP over ICMP, e.g. ping packets ) and NSTX(IP over DNS). ICMP didn’t seem to work, but hostnames were resolvable, so I done some more reading on NSTX.

Turns out that some software called iodine has taken over the roll of NSTX. I was able to convince another user to compile iodine for snow leopard because I forgot to install xtools before I left, and followed this tutorial on installing on FreeBSD and this. In no time I had free internet at the cost of their name server. If they charged a decent rate, I wouldn’t have worried.

The tunnel is ok for low bandwidth uses, like HTML, but other content slows the pipe down quickly.

As you have have noticed, I’ve started using blogger with a custom domain, I also you google hosted gmail. This means I need to make mx records to google hosted, and I also need to create a cname for theskorm.net to ghs.google.com. One minor, small fault with this, you cannot mix mx and cname records together. Luckily afraid.org has a nice web forward feature, which means I put blogger on www.theskorm.net and forward it :>.

I decided to work on the afraid round orbin script, it now checks that a particular port is open on the hosts so that it can certain that its alive, if it isn’t, it just puts in the fillers ip. Described better in the file, and doesn’t use wget, stupid me.

Imported Deadlink here.

This is basiclly for all the people that want to break the RFC standards and afraid.org saft measures without doingeither of the two. This is the problem as I see it, you and your friends create this ultra cool irc network inwhich you have a few servers and a domain name, howto share that irc.yourdomain.com between yous, well you could make a “A Record” for each person creating a round robin, but this doesn’t work since most of you’s proberly have dynamic IPs. Wouldn’t ya’ just love to be able to create a round robin with Cnames, well that would be against RFC standards. Anyway here is my solution, I use this script with afraid.org to update A records in my subdomain every 5 minutes using good ye’ old crontab. The php script basiclly gets the IP addresses from your friends records you select and places them into the round robin A Records, anyway here it is. By the way, this php script shouldn’t break anything, but if it does, it’s not my fault. (Yes i know this is a dodgy post)

Dead Link