Recently dnsstuff.com started charging for all their services and have doubled their prices. I know they're a business, but this move will force people away from their site onto other services.

So I've been looking for an alternative to dnsstuff.com for a while and came across this: https://dnssy.com
It seems to have similar reports and is good for debugging your DNS setup.

As a few people have pointed out in the comments there was an error in the initial release of the V2 postcode database, the suburb data had been lost along the way.

I've fixed the problem and updated the bzip2 and gzip files. I've also removed the mssql version as it never worked anyway. I'm not sure if the problem affects the csv version and I don't have time to look at it now.

Enjoy.

I'm just trying out a new method to optimize vBulletin's front end scripts and CSS. It's still a work in progress but these are the results I have seen on my test site (www.wirelessforums.org)

I've done a bit of work on the database, added a bit of information and corrected mistakes.

Thanks to Owen and others for help with the data.

I realized today that vBulletin's Javascript was just too bulky and didn't really need to be, especially when you have no plans to customize it yourself. So I grabbed all the packages of 3.6.x and minimized all the Javascript. In most cases the Javascript files are 50% of the original, which saves bandwidth and speeds up the loading of your forum.

I'm always getting grief from my managers about not testing in IE6, which is hard when IE7 is installed on all machines these days. I recently found a little install tool which allows you to run multiple versions of IE on the same machine. It doesn't fully install IE, just the dll's and uses dll redirection to trick windows into running an older version of IE.

I've just received some data from Owen for RD and PO Box postcodes, so I'll be added these into the database.

Also, stay tuned for Long/Lat coordinates for streets and postcodes.

I managed to figure out how to monitor Apache with Big Brother and LARRD. As it's not very well documented I thought I'd share it with everyone.

I was dissapointed when I saw the current Google sitemap generators available, so I wrote one.

I ran into some problems with MySQL on RHEL 4 when SELinux was enabled. When starting MySQL it would come up with this: