Archive for June 12th, 2008
GOLF
Posted by Bloggylife in thoughts on June 12, 2008
So one of the things I would like to try out is GOLF
I always hear about how hard it is though it seems pretty easy ;p
Anyway with the U.S. open GOLF tournament, which I don’t follow just hear about, all eyes are on Tiger woods and who is going to win
The weird thing is he had a knee surgery, OK, how in the hell can a golfer hurt his knees, standing too much … too long … it would make sense if he was a footballer, NBA player … but GOLF ??
That doesn’t make sense!!! Unless he hit himself with the golf bat -if they call it that- or someone “accidentally” contacted the bat with his knees ;p
I guess GOLF is a hazardous sport after all.
Secretary Thoughts
Posted by Bloggylife in thoughts on June 12, 2008
What a difference …
I have two people to compare and a job in fact …
I thought secretaries are just an addition to a department, they do nothing except filling up the EGO of some managers and minor department administration here and there …
My old job, our secretary will go away for months and you notice nothing is changed, minor if noticed inconvenience. We used to do everything and hand it to her for some signature needed here and there and she will ask you to do it yourself. Take the paper and go from department to another and I used to do that because I hated the office boy and didn’t deal with him. So basically we benefited nothing from her and I thought this was the normal way … she would say I can’t do this, my eyes, my hands, my back, my throat ….
And then I came here and got introduced to our secretary’s department, if she is gone, everything gets harder. Because I am used to the old system, in the beginning, I did everything and handed to her and she would say you don’t have to do that, I’ll do it and no matter how busy she is she will answer my questions and run over to me to make sure everything is finalized. If some papers are missing and I tell her, just tell me where the folder is and I’ll go looking for it, she doesn’t. She has this incredible memory, I will ask her I forgot did we send this, she will say yes we did or the status of it. I would have killed some people if I were her because of the amount of work they give her or how the keep nagging!!! They drive me crazy just be hearing them talk … ‘Allah ye3enha’
It is really hard to be a secretary for some people not ALL … my old one used to take one hour break everyday to go walk around the building for exercise and our new secretary doesn’t even find the time to eat!!!!
PTR Issues
Posted by Bloggylife in troubleshooting, windows on June 12, 2008
Changes have been made over our network …
Fresh out of managing the firewall course, guess what … we are having problems with our clustering firewalls ;P put right into the test … anyhow the problem seems to be momentarily solved, I’ll have to keep an eye on that one.
Some of emails are not going out and to some specific domain names (aol.com), the error message as follows:
Final-Recipient: rfc822; user@aol.com
Action: delayed
Status: 4.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: X-Symantec-Mail-Security; host
mailin-02.mx.aol.com[205.188.249.91] said: 421-: (DNS:NR)
http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/421dnsnr.html 421 SERVICE NOT
AVAILABLE (in reply to end of DATA command)
Will-Retry-Until: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:10:05 +0300 (AST)
If you go to the link, the basic issue that you don’t have any PTR records for your email agents that aol is trying to communicate with, they have a lookup tool to verify this which you can use. DAMN those dnsstuff for not being free anymore!!!
Some email servers for spam issues try to lookup the IP to get the host name
I’m new to the DNS thing, so when double checking out reverse zone, everything is configured properly … so the troubleshooting begins …
nslookup from any machine and connect to an external DNS server, your ISP’s and lookup your domain names and your IPs
It states to contact your ISP or DNS providers, so I thought we are our own DNS providers why aren’t the PTR updates reflecting outside!!!
Conclusion, to add any PTR record contact your ISP and they do it on their DNS.
So I called in and they transfered me from one to another, but they were really nice and finally I talked to this nice lady and I told her the requirements over the phone and hoooopppaaa everything configured.
Early morning, all pending emails have gone through
Along the way, I discovered a DNS configuration problem that apparently affected the Internet performance and now we increased 25%, hehehehe, OK, I need to stop and just hope the day “ye3adi 3ala khair”
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