2015 Archives

Realistic, Extensible DNS and mDNS Models for INET/OMNeT++

September 3, 2015

Efficient hash tables for network applications

May 15, 2015

DNSSEC for .ch domains

This year, all owners of .ch domains need to switch from the DNS registry SWITCH to a new registrar. Getting an overview over these registrars is hard. Thankfully, Marc Wäckerlin has started the road to transparency with a price comparison of Swiss .ch domain registrars. Here, I extend his results with a survey of DNSSEC…

April 2, 2015

Automatic svn file addition/removal

You have files under version control, which are updated through a different mechanism (software update, another VCS such as git, …) or are using svn to archive automatically generated files? Then you are likely to constantly manually determine the appropriate svn add and svn rm commands. This can be automated…

March 22, 2015

svn log message updating script

Here is a simple script to allow updating your Subversion commit messages and have the repository admins receive a nice email message with the change.

March 8, 2015

VirtualBox DHCP nameserver for NAT network

VirtualBox is a great environment for testing networking tools such as opDNS. However, I did not get the VirtualBox DHCP server for NAT network to provide nameserver information, even though the client asks for it. Here’s a simple solution to this problem.

March 7, 2015

Compact Archives Widget for WordPress

The standard Archives Widget looks like the image right here. It works well when only a few months are to be displayed. However, it fails if your blog’s history goes back a long way. Here is aÂ quick way to get down from 12 lines per year to 1, increasing usability and page size.

February 21, 2015

Netfuture: The future is networked

Year: 2015