Posting from a mac

by Stephen 1/5/2009 6:34:50 PM

Well I found a program that seems to work for posting better then what I was using. Just if i buy it I will post more, hey you get what you pay for.Ecto seems to work better, it even lets me delete test posts. I should use an image as a test, but i will get to that later. Right now not a whole lot running around in my mind other then I have some work to do tonight at 1AM.

I think I might buy this app and find out how it posts things to get the picture plugin to work better. Time to start the coding I guess

I might poke at it later, but for now a simple weekly tip
When you need to check someone's mail server you can use nslookup on XP and Vista

nslookup
> set type=mx

> server 4.2.2.2
Default server: 4.2.2.2
Address: 4.2.2.2#53

> velcrohurts.com
  Server: 4.2.2.2
Address: 4.2.2.2#53

Non-authoritative answer:

velcrohurts.com mail exchanger = 10 mx.velcrohurts.com.cust.b.hostedemail.com.

Authoritative answers can be found from:
>

Now to review this. nslookup is the name server lookup for most OSes.

set type=mx
that tells nslookup that we want to look for a mail record or a Mail eXchange record

server 4.2.2.2
This chooses a server outside of most peoples controller. This allows us to see our information from an external source that is not in our control to make sure our records are correct

The next part is the domain that we want to look up. In my case i used my email server. By telling me that it is the record has not been changed for a while or updated.

If you want to get seriously into DNS, I recommend setting up a linux server like Ubuntu, CentOS, or Slackare and setting up BIND atleast once.

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