Porkbun DNS was back up by the next morning after being down at least 4 hours on April 24th. The only word I got from Porkbun about the incident was from a ticket I sent them, in which they said they had a DDoS attack on their DNS servers.
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I got bit by a tick again. Seems to be an annual occurrence now after not having any for most of my life.
Continue reading post "#3731"Porkbun DNS seems to be down and has been so for the last several hours at least. I have added Fastmail nameservers to my NS list so that things work for the moment, since I get that as part of my account there. Can’t for my client though, who I had recommended Porkbun to.
Impreza transmission replacement
After about a week and five days without my car (Subaru Impreza), I got it back with a “new” transmission.
Continue reading post "Impreza transmission replacement"Impreza transmission death
One of my larger fears when I bought my Subaru Impreza with a CVT transmission was that the transmission would fail early, but not early enough to be covered by warranty. I saw talk online about reliability problems with the tech, which was fairly new to cars, with the Impreza only being in its second year with them I believe. On last Wednesday, my transmission did fail, but luckily it is going to work out alright, as Subaru of America (SOA) is going to help me out.
Continue reading post "Impreza transmission death"I was all ready to head off to work this morning when my Subaru Impreza’s transmission started acting up.
Continue reading post "#3623"My boot has died, or at least was maimed. Trudging through the snow for one of my morning walks, the sole came off at the front and started hanging down, catching on the snow as I went.
Continue reading post "#3618"My furnace stopped working again yesterday. Luckily I was able to get it running again myself this time.
Continue reading post "#3566"My old eBay username / email seems to no longer exist in eBay’s system. I used it as recently as fourteen years ago. Disappointing: I have to start over there.
Rsync and dealing with “some files vanished” warning
I use rsync for backups, site deployments, and other purposes where I need to sync two folders. It took a little while to figure out, but has been great for those purposes since. Every once in a while, though, I run into issues with it. Recently, I set up an rsync script to back up most of the files on my entire computer. Since this takes a while and the computer is actively running during the backup, things can change while it is still running. This can lead to some errors like “rsync warning: some files vanished before they could be transferred”. Even though this is a warning, and the sync works perfectly fine, it returns a non-zero exit code. This caused my script to stop and thus the rest of the backup activity didn’t finish.
I looked for an option or simple solution to allow it to go on without complaining.
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