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Asking the Stupid Questions Since 1971
 Wednesday, February 13, 2002

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What's that site running?

You can make some assumptions based on this data.

  1. Because they are using the iPlanet Messaging Server, Apple's iTools services use LDAP to access the information necessary for mail delivery, i.e., userid and mailbox.
  2. They probably use the iPlanet Directory Server.
  3. The Apache server running iDisk is most likely using one of the many varieties of mod_ldap
  4. You can get to the user authentication data, for authentication purposes, through HTTP Digest Access Authentication.

What does this mean?

4:15:54 PM #
categories: Directories, Identity

Now that Boardwatch is pretty much useless, there's Help in Choosing an ISP.

2:07:47 PM #
categories: Industry

PingID: Open Digital Identity Infrastructure

2:06:49 PM #
categories: Identity

Baxter?

11:58:43 AM #

Selling .us:

Until last fall, the United States reserved its .us domain for local governments, schools and libraries, under a nonprofit system that assigned addresses based on locality. For example, the city of Chicago's Web page can be found at www.ci.chi.il.us.

NeuStar executives have said that they will preserve the existing system but also plan to open it up to commercial development, making available simpler addresses such as www.chicago.us.

Simpler? Westchester County, New York, instead of going with westchester.county.ny.us bought westchestergov.com. Now we have road signs which remind us that corporations don't have a monopoly on stupid URLs.

NeuStar's plan is critically flawed, however. Instead of offering third-level domains under, for example, com.us, they're offering second-level domains under .us. This drastically limits the potential namespace. We will see rapid depletion following the .com experience as poachers collect the better names.

11:42:12 AM #
categories: Industry

People who don't use Instant Messaging during system failovers are on my sh?tlist.

10:46:03 AM #
categories: System Administration