Tim Groeneveld

-$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

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!

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

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/