Monthly Archives: December 2011

Sloppy File Handling – Perl

When reading around the subject of file handling in Perl its easy to get sloppy, phrases like ‘automatic cleanup’ and the like lull us into believing that the close statement is just a ‘nice to have’. Well this burnt me … Continue reading

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Synchronising Nameservers (Bind + FreeBSD) with Perl

A funny thing happened to a colleague’s name servers the other day. Whilst very diligent in almost every respect when it comes to failover, redundancy, etc, etc he was bitten by a simple yet overlooked  issue. We all synchronise name … Continue reading

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