Felt like doing an update from class, just because I can. Going to be registering for fall semester tommorow. Taking four classes in the fall and another four or so in the spring which will hopefully be the last I need to get my degree. Finishing my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science will be very nice. Only about a year more to go till I finish it up. Definitely a pretty nice feeling that it's all coming to a close. We'll see if I survive it. ;)

First DMZ user, Ken (friend from work) showed up today. Amazingly we had him up and working on the network in only about 2 hours. I also set up a box which he installed over at his place which is going to be my offsite DNS/mail server. Pretty nice arrangement overall. Next big network change is very likely to be the move to bind9. I've been working on it for a little while but it can be a royal pain getting all the different views to work the way I want them to. Unfortuantely there's not (yet) a way to say that you want one zone (the *same* zone) to be in two different views. This isn't so much a problem for master zones because you just list the same zone with the same file twice. With slave zones it's trickier though because if you specify the same zone in two views with the same filename there's a distinct possibility the file will get corrupted when a zone transfer happens from the remote master since it'll try and do the zone transfer for both views. This also means twice as much network usage and whatnot for the zone transfers since it's happening twice. There really needs to be a way to say "This zone should apply for these views." Oh well, work with what you have I suppose, maybe we'll see some improvment in this area in a future version of bind.