Tim Groeneveld » Galium

This is what you get when coding on drugs…

Tim Groeneveld — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:27:09 +0000

-$top .= $ns['recordName'] .
         str_repeat(" ", 20-strlen($ns['recordName']) ) .'A';
+$top .= $ns['recordName'] .
         str_repeat(" ", 20-strlen($ns['recordName']) ) . $ns['recordType'];

Thank you very much, I am proud to accept the award for the major ‘Oh Damn’ of the year. This ‘Oh Damn’ silently broke ns5′s .ing TLD for a smal time…

This was in Galium, and a new release solving this and two other minor issues will be released soon, for the time being, grab the patch at http://hg.sharesource.org/galium/raw-rev/861da6f25b75 … just patch it with -p1

Galium 0.29 hotfix

Tim Groeneveld — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:13:06 +0000

What’s fixed in this hotifx?

Domain Cron is less verbose
Started removing hard coded values inside the domain cron.
Fixed a bug in the domain cron; where a domain would not be marked as being updated when it had beed
Included the missing ‘switch’ function… woops!

Galium 0.29 hotfix

Galium 0.29 released!

Tim Groeneveld — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:01:54 +0000

Galium 0.29 released!

100% Fixed the confusing template, where logout showed up, without being logged in!
100% You can now (again) switch between local and remote hosting of domains
90% Users can now add A, AAAA and CNAME records.

How to upgrade?
If you have installed Galium 0.2 or later, updating is as simple as just replacing all the updated files. If not, go to the directory where you installed Galium, and type ‘php ./apps/doUpdate.php’

tim@timg:/var/www/galium$ ./apps/doUpdate.php
=> Galium Cron Service v0.2b
--> Loading configuration ...
--> Connecting to MySQL ...
=> Checking if the database needs an update ...
=> Updating to database version 4
--> Running UPDATE-0002.sql ...
----> OK!!!
--> Running UPDATE-0003.sql ...
----> OK!!!
--> Running UPDATE-0004.sql ...
----> OK!!!
--> OK!

Easy! Download the latest Galium here.

tim@timg:/var/www$ diff -ur galium.old galium | diffstat
 galium/apps/domainCron.php                                |  150 +++++-----
 galium/conf/config.php                                    |    4
 galium/www/Applications/User/Manage.php                   |  149 ++++++++-
 galium/www/Libraries/Backend.php                          |   32 ++
 galium/www/Skins/bea../Template.php                       |   16 -
 galium/www/Skins/bea../Temp..s/Man../Dom..Records.php     |   18 -
 galium/www/Skins/bea../Temp..s/Man../lis..omains.php      |    6
 12 files changed, 273 insertions(+), 103 deletions(-)

giv.ing some lov.ing to Galium

Tim Groeneveld — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 06:23:18 +0000

In around six hours (in other words, in 24 hours, knowing me) I am going to be releasing an update to Galium, which will finally allow (after how many weeks?) using the name servers from the top level domain, but allowing users to specify their own DNS records. In other words, DNS records would be hosted by us, which would remove the need for glue servers in some cases.

Also, in other news, the .gopher and the .geek top level domains either are – or will soon be – powered by Galium! Next step; world domination!

Preparing galium TLD software to do new tricks

Tim Groeneveld — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:36:31 +0000

I am currently working on the next version of galium, the software that runs the .ing top level domain name. This update will be minor upgrade-wise (going from a 0.2 to a 0.3), but will provide a few new features, and will pave the way to galium 1.0.

What Galium 0.3 will do:

Enforce domain limits per user
Fix the last cron update “bug” (it’s not really a bug, but it is annoying)
Finally allow the adding of A, NS, MX etc records, so a glue name server is not required (this means that requests are handled by the slave servers directly! Can anyone spell speed increase?)
It will not have hardcoded SOA records… this will be able to be changed. Somehow.

The future (Galium 0.4 and higher):

Allow domains to be registered via an API (probably with MyInfo)
Keep a backup of all (or some) previous generated TLD configurations somewhere
Support more backends then just BIND
Have a WHOIS server

Galium update comming in the next 20 minutes

Tim Groeneveld — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:14:15 +0000

My Galium top level domain software will get a minor update soon, which will fix a few [minor] outstanding issues.

Usernames can now contain the “-” character
The zone file generator will not always give the outputted revision as being “0″ (this stopped all updates from not appearing on slave DNS servers until the following update on the next day … bad).
The cron that generates the zone file now reloads bind!

I will release this version as soon as it’s commited, and then begin working on the ability to add A, MX and a few other types of records. At the moment it only works via glues.

UPDATE: the new version of Galium was released, and can be downloaded from http://sharesource.org/project/galium/files/136/