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Here is a quick post of a “quick and dirty” patch for the ISC DNS Server : Bind 9.5.0a6 and its dlz mysql driver. For the quick story, I was using Bind 9.4.1 with dlz MySQL. My MySQL server is a 5.0.41 (with solidDB). While using it, I realize that some times the dns server was returning empty value for the dns queries. I tried many tips but it was still (sometime) giving me empty answer… Of course, I suspected the dlz driver. So, I tried to upgrade to Bind 9.5.0a6 but the problem still happened and the only way to fix was to restart bind !

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Good start for the new year, I’m learning Python and so add a new bunch of pages on shell-tips.com about some Trac plugins that I’m doing. Trac is a minimalistic web-based software project management and bug/issue tracking system. It provides an interface to the Subversion revision control systems, an integrated wiki, flexible issue tracking and convenient report facilities.

Two plugins are currently in the pipe :

• A Platform Deployment Plugin for simplify web sources deployment on remote host
• A Syslog-NG Plugin for having a nice interface for your web server syslog and so tracking the bugs

You can know more about those projects here.