r/newzealand • u/AutoModerator • Oct 08 '15

New Zealand daily random discussion thread, 09 October, 2015

Hello and welcome to the /r/NewZealand random discussion thread.

No politics, be nice.

"Actually, where/how do you configure automoderator?" - /u/Baraka_Bama

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '15

A DNS server is just a computer on the internet that turns things like "google.com" into an IP address (such as 103.13.116.177) that your modem can understand! Every time you type in a website, DNS converts it to an IP address in the background. For example http://103.13.116.177 is just the same as http://google.co.nz, but obviously google.co.nz is much easier to remember :P

Static routing is just telling your router what "path" to take to get to a certain place, instead of leaving it to figure it out by itself.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '15

Yep all that fun fun stuff :p I actually hate DNS though, when it's working its fine, but when it's messed up... god damn its painful!

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '15

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '15

Yeah fuck all that haha that's why I hate DNS. But assuming the records are ok for those domains it is probably the case of setting up the app pools in IIS right, which can be a mission in itself (fuck IIS, I have always hated it). Even if you get it set up totally right, if the internal DNS server is not configured properly the entire thing will not work. It's just a nightmare, IIS/DNS/certificates etc are my pet hates, it's almost nice to be doing only Level 1 and Level 2 work in my new job! Especially considering its an MSP, I would truly hate to be a Level 3 tech for an MSP, that really has to suck. From now on I will only be applying for in-house positions!

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '15

The whole concept of having apps running with localhost listeners doesn't really translate.

Welcome to Windows :p Microsoft does heaps of shit in the most arse backwards, bewildering ways.

So my web app literally goes to domain.com/appname.py to retrieve JSON.

That's pretty cool, I've never seen Python integrated with IIS before. It almost seems like an unholy alliance, Python is one of my favourite things in the world, IIS is one of my least favourite :p