Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS
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What could possibly go wrong?
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@Dragnslcr I abandoned Dyn right around the time when they dropped their free plan entirely. I mean like eerily close to exactly the time. Almost like cause-and-effect type of stuff, if you believe in those sort of conspiracy theories.
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DNS powered by Oracle?
How could that go ERROR:SBL-1009-92828190 Word record not found
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@anotherusername said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
I abandoned Dyn right around the time when they dropped their free plan entirely.
That makes me wonder if I'm currently paying for my dynamic DNS. If so I probably shouldn't have ignored their warning that my credit card on record is expiring.
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Given the 'situation' I'm currently dealing with involving Dyn, this would likely be an improvement.
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@mott555 given the situation of a company with whom most of you will be familiar, for which we attempt to run a website for them, cannot manage to adequately provide a consistently working DNS A record... and have been asked now no less than 30 times in the last year to provide said fucking A record... and failed to achieve this, and subsequently outsourced their DNS to Dyn who also fail to make it work.
PEOPLE, IT'S AN A RECORD. IT'S NOT LIKE WE ASKED YOU FOR QUAD-A OR MX OR TXT/SPF OR CNAME TO PROVIDE DKIM. IT'S A FUCKING IPV4 DNS A RECORD.
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@mott555 said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
@anotherusername said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
I abandoned Dyn right around the time when they dropped their free plan entirely.
That makes me wonder if I'm currently paying for my dynamic DNS. If so I probably shouldn't have ignored their warning that my credit card on record is expiring.
I know I'm not. Afraid.org dynamic, which I route to from addresses I set up from my personal domain. You can skip the personal domain steps if you don't mind just using the (occasionally odd) domains that afraid has available for free users, and you just have to log in to the site once a year or so to keep it from auto-expiring.
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@mott555 said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
That makes me wonder if I'm currently paying for my dynamic DNS.
@e4tmyl33t said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
Afraid.org
That's a different company. There's an actual company named Dyn and they used to offer dynamic DNS for free.
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@anotherusername said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
That's a different company. There's an actual company named Dyn and they used to offer dynamic DNS for free.
Oh, I get that. I was just specifically responding to mott wondering if they were paying for theirs with the method I'm using not to pay for it, in case it was wanted.
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I give my ISP $2/month for a static IP, like ... wait. Okay, fuck whatever I'm posting, what in the glorious shit is this?
Seriously? WHAT THE FUCK?
Whose fucking fault is this? W10? Chrome? NodeBB? Combination? I'm fucking demanding answers here.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
Whose fucking fault is this? W10? Chrome? NodeBB? Combination? I'm fucking demanding answers here.
libreoffice does this as well. i don't think it's something new...
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@anotherusername said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
I abandoned Dyn right around the time when they dropped their free plan entirely.
When did that happen? I've had a dyndns.org address for years, it still works, dynamic updates still work, and I've never paid a cent for it.
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@e4tmyl33t said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
I know I'm not. Afraid.org dynamic
I was satisfied enough that I put a subscription into the tip jar. Crazy simple Web 1.0 interface, but you can't deny the reliability...
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@Lorne-Kates said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
I give my ISP $2/month for a static IP, like ... wait. Okay, fuck whatever I'm posting, what in the glorious shit is this?
Seriously? WHAT THE FUCK?
Whose fucking fault is this? W10? Chrome? NodeBB? Combination? I'm fucking demanding answers here.
Welcome to the art that is kerning.
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@flabdablet said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
@anotherusername said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
I abandoned Dyn right around the time when they dropped their free plan entirely.
When did that happen? I've had a dyndns.org address for years, it still works, dynamic updates still work, and I've never paid a cent for it.
So you're probably one of their early donors? These free users are not affected.
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@Lorne-Kates looks like normal kerning to me.
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@LB_ said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
looks like normal kerning to me.
So @Lorne-Kates just had a kerning panick?
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@cheong said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
one of their early donors?
Early adopter, possibly. Never donated anything.
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([XKCD](http://xkcd.com/1015/))
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@Dragnslcr said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
What could possibly go wrong?
"Your DNS record had 50,000 requests. That means you owe us 50,000 user licenses, mister!"
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@anonymous234 said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
@Dragnslcr said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
What could possibly go wrong?
"Your DNS record had 50,000 requests. That means you owe us 50,000 user licenses, mister!"
That's 50,000 request licences plus another 50,000 response licences.
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@No_1 said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
@anonymous234 said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
@Dragnslcr said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
What could possibly go wrong?
"Your DNS record had 50,000 requests. That means you owe us 50,000 user licenses, mister!"
That's 50,000 request licences plus another 50,000 response licences.
That's only if you're purchasing under the ORCL-137271-DNS-A SKU.
The ORCL-137272-DNS-B and 13243-DNS-C contacts work differently though. Responses are covered in B, as long as they are made during the correct hours, determined in the Dynoracle Licensing Handbook (purchasable for only $299 with a renewal contact of $50/yr). The DNS C contact is a simple exponential scale with a minimum purchase of 20,000 requests and responses.
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Why should I care about Dyn DNS going to Oracle? Why are they important? Aren't there plenty other similar providers out there?
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@AlexMedia said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
([XKCD](http://xkcd.com/1015/))
Upvote for including the
title
attribute.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
I give my ISP $2/month for a static IP, like ... wait. Okay, fuck whatever I'm posting, what in the glorious shit is this?
Seriously? WHAT THE FUCK?
Whose fucking fault is this? W10? Chrome? NodeBB? Combination? I'm fucking demanding answers here.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
Whose fucking fault is this? W10? Chrome?
These two. Kerning is supposed to be handled automatically for you based on hints in the font, though exactly where that automation is located depends on all sorts of things. (It might vary by font, and it certainly varies by platform.) Font rendering is vastly more complicated than it appears to be at first glance.
NodeBB?
Beyond it asking for a specific font, no.
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@flabdablet said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
@cheong said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
one of their early donors?
Early adopter, possibly. Never donated anything.
They only gave premium accounts to users who had donated. Everyone else had to pay for it, including early adopters, as far as I know.
I don't know what the cutoff for "early adopter" was... the earliest email I can find from them pertaining to my Dyn account was back in August 2007.
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@sloosecannon said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
determined in the Dynoracle Licensing Handbook (purchasable for only $299 with a renewal contact of $50/yr)
Reminds me of those laws that go "all products sold have to follow the DIN-ISO-IEC 48825::144b standard. To know what the standard says, purchase a copy now for only $1,499.99!"
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@dkf said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
These two.
Okay, I'm FF22 on Win7 now. Let's see:
IP, wow.
http://i.imgur.com/KdKHHEm.png
That's better.
Hey, what happens with that stupid "under the P" comma + the spiel cheek underline? Do they end up overlapping?
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@Lorne-Kates said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
That's better.
It's up to the OS and the browser. Nod cares not.
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@Lorne-Kates That has to be the most pointless complaint ever. The comma looks perfectly good there.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
IP,
IP,
This looks like your personal problem.
Filed Under: Why is the empty string kerned?
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@Lorne-Kates said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
@dkf said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
These two.
Okay, I'm FF22 on Win7 now. Let's see:
IP, wow.
http://i.imgur.com/KdKHHEm.png
That's better.
Hey, what happens with that stupid "under the P" comma + the spiel cheek underline? Do they end up overlapping?
Don't upgrade to 50.0 (like if that would happen).
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@Luhmann said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
@No_1 said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
Dynacle
Sounds like tentacle ... Perfect!
Pentacle Rex?
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@accalia said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
@Luhmann said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
@No_1 said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
Dynacle
Sounds like tentacle ... Perfect!
Pentacle Rex?
Is that because Oracle is the king of evil, or because Oracle is the evil that destroys everything?
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@Dragnslcr said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
@accalia said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
@Luhmann said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
@No_1 said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
Dynacle
Sounds like tentacle ... Perfect!
Pentacle Rex?
Is that because Oracle is the king of evil, or because Oracle is the evil that destroys everything?
Wait...if Oracle is the king of evil, and Dyn's primary color scheme is yellow...
Will this make Oracle the King in Yellow?
Where's my Elder Sign?
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@Dragnslcr said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
@accalia said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
@Luhmann said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
@No_1 said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
Dynacle
Sounds like tentacle ... Perfect!
Pentacle Rex?
Is that because Oracle is the king of evil, or because Oracle is the evil that destroys everything?
what does it rhyme with maybe?
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@e4tmyl33t More like ORA-00907: missing right parenthesis
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@JazzyJosh If that's a code you run into often enough to remember it, I do not want to know what you work on.
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@PleegWat not on a live application. My complaint is more that that error code is a big fat liar. Usually you're missing a comma or something, not a
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@JazzyJosh said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
My complaint is more that that error code is a big fat liar. Usually you're missing a comma or something, not a )
FWIW, writing parsers that can detect and diagnose such problems reliably and usefully is astonishingly difficult. (That's one step from auto-correcting your code, and :do_not_want: is the correct response to that particular concept.)
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@PleegWat except there's no guarantee that ORA-00907 means the same thing from version to version...
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@Arantor said in Oracle to purchase Dyn DNS:
means the same thing from version to version
That is because they have this randomize_errors() function in their build script.
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@Luhmann the script does email internally to confirm for the current version what error codes mean what though. But getting access to that distribution list is $$$$$.
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@Arantor
It costs money because they have a whole team working on keeping track of those numbers. Manually entering those numbers in various tracking systems. Unfortunately none is searchable and none is accessible except from that one vault like room right across Larry's personal bathroom.