Godaddy coupon codes

I registered around 12 domains with godaddy a few days back. Total cost was around $80+ and when coupon code is entered, it saved me around $9. I wish I should have registered the domains only today :-P I received a email from Godaddy, saying that $15 discount for any order of $75 or more. I could have saved $6 more ..hehe..greedy me..

Here I like to share some coupon codes of godaddy, which can save you some money. All coupon codes can save you $5 atleast, but on calculated entry of right coupon code, you can save anywhere between 5% to 15%. See below

gdm0138f - Save $15 discount for any order of $75 or more - Offer expires on Feb 15th, 2007
gdm0125b - Get 10% off as well as get $5.99 .org domains with this coupon at GoDaddy. No maximum or minimum - Offer expires by 31st Jan 2007
gdm0118b - $6.95 on new .com ..expiry 31st Jan 2007
gdbb776 - ALL .com domains at $6.95 not sure whether expired or not
LOL45 SAVE 10% on any order of $50 or more! - Offer expires 02/28/07.
goox025agc $6.95 domains.. Never expires ?

Nameserver issues - Bind 9

Many times when a website is not resolving, the first thing you must do is to check it in the dnsstuff.com or issue the command 'dig @ns1.domain.com domain.com'. If you are able to understand the response, it is easy to figure out where the problem lies..

Q: How do I find the nameservers of a domain, again use dig.

A : 'dig domain.com NS' will show a raw output of the output.

Now there are different responses one will get for a dig query. Here, I am talking about Redhat based OSes. Other OSes may slightly vary in the config locations. Currently I am telling about the response which has the key word, Server Failure in it's response. Here are a few checks which may help you in figuring out the issue, yourself.


Check #1

It means, the nameserver on which you are querying for the domain don't hold the domain zone. Create an entry in /etc/named.conf and put the zone file somewhere in /var/named, and do a 'rndc reload'. And then do a 'dig @127.0.0.1 domain.com' . Check the answer section, does it respond something along the lines,

;; ANSWER SECTION:
domain.com 86400 IN A 192.168.1.12

Then it is all good and locally it is working fine. If it didn't work, then read on..

Check #2

In Redhat based OSes the named config options are stored at /etc/sysconfig/named , by default. If all the lines there are commented with # or there is no line at all, we can proceed. Otherwise , check for this setting in particular,

ROOTDIR="/var/named/run-root"

Value of ROOTDIR can be anything, another most commonly found value is /var/named/chroot. Once set, that value means the root (it's new home) directory for the named user is /var/named/run-root and it can't see /bin or /usr or not even /tmp. Poor named..isn't it..Well that is called chrooted environment for better security. More about that later..

Usually in such cases, /etc/named.conf will be a symbolic link to ROOTDIR_value/etc/named.conf (in this case it will be symlink to /var/named/run-root/etc/named.conf). And the domain.com zone file would need to be copied to /var/named/run-root/var or even in /var/named/run-root/var/named instead of /var/named and finally do a rndc reload

Check #3

Okay all done. Still not working ? Did you check the log messages. By default the log messages appears in /var/log/messages, unless mentioned otherwise in the file parameter of the logging directive. Open two ssh sessions, reload rndc in one shell, and do a tail -f /var/log/messages on the other and watch for any warning or errors. Correct them accordingly. There are two tools which can help in the process.

named-checkconf and named-checkzone

named-checkconf will parse /etc/named.conf and checks the file syntax. Nothing else. In case of servers where ROOTDIR is set use 'named-checkconf -t /var/named/run-root'.

named-checkzone is what is most handy for me. Command to be issued is

named-checkzone domainname.com /var/named/run-root/var/named/domainname.com

It will print out the errors, if there are any. Or else say loaded okay. See o/p below.

Bad Zone

[root@hackcity var]#named-checkzone domainname.com /var/named/run-root/var/named/domainname.com
dns_master_load: domainname.com:24: domainname.com: CNAME and other data 
dns_master_load: domainname.com:26: domainname.com: CNAME and other data
zone domainname.com/IN: loading master file domainname.com: CNAME and other data

Good Zone

[root@hackcity var]#named-checkzone domainname.com /var/named/run-root/var/named/domainname.com
zone domainname.com/IN: loaded serial 1178542138
OK

Any idea on what was the error with the Bad Zone ?

It was CNAME entries like, in the lines 24-26. Removed them and they were all fine.

domainname.com. IN CNAME domainname.com
domainname.com. IN CNAME domainname.com
domainname.com. IN CNAME domainname.com

Check #4

Last but very important, do you know which is the most important character in a DNS zone file ? It is the period "." :-) If you miss one, none of the above steps will help you. If you forget that the comments in DNS are not marked using # and instead ; , it will remind you. But if you forget the period -> . <- then you have to figure it out yourself. It is something every newbie admins miss.

DBI connect('mysql:localhost','root',...) failed: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) at /usr/local/cpanel/Cpanel/Mysql.pm

Another cPanel issue. A customer was moved the servers, but he was not able to create any databases from cPanel in the new server, but works from phpmyadmin. So issue is isolated with cPanel, when checking the cPanel error logs at /usr/local/cpanel/logs/error_log , saw the follow error

DBI connect('mysql:localhost','root',...) failed: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) at /usr/local/cpanel/Cpanel/Mysql.pm line 42

which kept on repeating each time we take the cPanel page. I tried re-installing DBD::mysql, DBI..but it didn't work. Finally forced the DBI installation with the below command and it fixed :-)

/scripts/perlinstaller --force Bundle::DBI

Free web based Solaris 10 course from SUN

In the BOSUG mailing list, Venky has mentioned about this free web-based Solaris 10 course from Sun Microsystems themselves:
http://www.sun.com/training/catalog/courses/WS-245.xml

You may need to register for free in the Sun Website for this. But it is more than worth it. Don't miss this golden chance to get an overview of Solaris 10 (and hence OpenSolaris). I didn't yet finish listening it (yeah it is voice enabled presentation made in Macromedia Breeze) but couldn't wait to post about the links. Below are the contents of the course.

Module 1: DTrace
Module 2: Extreme Network Performance
Module 3: Solaris Containers
Module 4: Solaris Containers for Linux Applications
Module 5: Solaris ZFS
Module 6: Solaris 10 Predictive Self Healing
Module 7: Unparalleled Security

Don't miss it guys and spread the news. I am already late, but better late than never :) Enjoy

Creating PostgreSQL datase with custom encoding

To create a database with custom encoding, su as postgres user su - postgres and login into PostgreSQL terminal.

psql template1 postgres

and execute the following SQL command to create the db:

create database username_dbname with owner=username encoding='ENCODING_NAME';

If you get the "CREATE DATABASE" message and no errors, all is ok and you can logout from the terminal by inputing '\q'.

Google enters into Domain Business!!!

Google is into acquisition spree. Where are they heading to ? No more research driver projects eh ? They are trying to make money now by all means possible, by their revolutionary search alogrithm , GFS and many other hot technologies and yes many pet projects of their team. Enough of technology, we are gonna buy Bill Gates soon. Way to go Google. Here is the hot news!!!

Google said it has signed an agreement to resell Web site addresses held by domain name registrar services GoDaddy.com and eNom beginning Friday. Registration has been integrated in Google Apps for Your Domain.

Registration fees are $10 annually. The service will support .com, .org, .net, .biz, and .info domains. The Mountain View, Calif., company said the service also includes the ability to create an administrative account to manage the site and a configuration tool to ensure the Google Apps is available on the new site.

Google Apps for Your Domain includes Gmail, calendar, shared calendaring, Google Talk instant messaging, Google Page Creator, and the Start Page for creating a home page.

The Web site of Bellevue, Wash.-based eNom says domain names to resellers sell for between $6.95 and $8.95 each annually. Mobile domain names, .Mobi, also are available from the site. Scottsdale, Ariz., GoDaddy, sells domains to resellers between $7 and $9 per name, plus an annual fee and additional charges for hosting and security certificates, according to its site.

If it seems a little odd that Google would offer to resell domain names, that’s likely because its engineers are afforded the luxury to explore other types of applications.

Similar to other innovative companies, Google allows intellectual freedom to its engineers of up to 20 percent of their working hours, estimates Guzman & Co. senior equity analyst Philip Remek. “Google probably has about 100 pet projects that will never generate revenue,” he said. “Then you have applications like Google Earth that on first glance looks like a toy, but when linked to local and mobile based search could become a powerful tool.”

As the Internet evolves, some of Google’s pet projects could turn into revenue-generating applications, Mr. Remek said.

Shares of Google rose $1.11 to $483.23 in mid-morning trading. (Not much as it raised when they took over GooTube :-))

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