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I’ve been reading alot about the American Deficit and the Debt of 8+ trillion Dollars, Every day now it seem that the Dollar against the Euro is sinking like the titanic It’s pretty scary when you read how the finance of the country is setup! I would love a bank that would keep lending me money no matter what:) I came across this website www.militaryindustrialcomplex.com and it had the entire farewell address to be people of America from Dwight Eisenhower when he stepped down as president. It amazing that for everything that he warned about, is coming to pass… Really scary stuff..

I’ve read a great number of articles about Oil Peak, and for me it’s a ticking time bomb of our own doing..
I was just doing a comparsion of Cars from GM and Cars from a few European Manufactures, I’m really shocked that even still today the vast majority of Cars from GM on average get about 25MPG (highway)(Petrol) taking that US gallon is 3.78 Liters I’m amazed that Cars in Europe can get for 100KM 4.1 Litres with is roughly 55+MPG (Diesel).

So while the World is running out of Oil the US is happy to go ahead and still produce very inefficient cars. Why ?
I have read, if oil producing countries were tomorrow to ask for payment in Euro, the Dollar would not survive, and the Banks would call in the loans….the Dollar becomes virtually worthless if oil is not bought or sold in dollars, the need for banks around the world to have Dollar reserves would for the most part be null and void except for the usual foreign exchange(I think) The more I read the more I get worried that the house of cards is going to fall, and it won’t be a soft one! I have to wonder can Europe survive without the America ? Ireland is greatly reliant on America, A lot of American companies have HQ here, I suppose the question is, will Ireland survive without America?

A number of people wrote some books on the subject of Empires and compared America to that of Rome! Amazon has a few books on the topic!
Hmmm, only time will tell i suppose, and on that note.

We need to have Geographical DNS, I think that’s what you call it. I looked into companies (neustar) that support this but found that they are really really expensive for what you get! So for starters I just used Round Robin DNS but it’s not a great solution. The problem with this approach is that you never really know what webserver you will get.

I found this website which patched Bind to allow Maxmind’s GEOIP support. The patch is for bind 9.4.1-P1 but a few changes and it worked for 9.4.2. I built a dep of the patched Bind using checkinstall. I install the Debian version of maxmind GEOIP. With a lot of tweaks to bind I finally got it working. I’m in the process of testing it to death and setting up a slave DNS with the same config. I hope that the slave will be a lot easier to setup.

I did some testing and its works

if we add more web servers in a region all i have to do is to update the named.conf file with country ID’s and request from that country/countries get directed to that web server(s).

Update: To allows slave master configuration : named.conf had to be setup using keys for each view.
example:

key “test” {
algorithm hmac-md5;
secret “Randomly generated key”;
};

in the view section
view “test” {
match-clients {key test ; country_IE };
}
This has to be done for all views, * the keys have to be different for all views.

Also have a look at this guys python script.
HiredGnu

I had great fun in Slovakia, I met my good friend Adriana we even went to the cinema, I saw “National Treasure” My friend had not been to cinema in ages so it was nice to go! although I only stayed 2 days in Slovakia I would have like to stay longer, maybe next time if she will have me then It was off the Krakow for 3 days, I spend the first night just taking photos and I even when to a jazz bar! at the time the band was impromptu and wasn’t very good, 4 guys plays whatever they wanted but trying to play like a band! I’ve seen a good blues impromptu gig so i know its possible!

I went to the salt mines the next day, Great Place… It really impressed me, they way they carved a church with chandlers.
I then went to Auschwitz, It has to be one of the most depressing places I’ve even been! And even the descriptions of the horrors that went on there fail to convey the shear madness of the place…. It’s a place that leaves a lasting reminder for all to see.

The last day i spend just looking around and eating in a vegie restaurant Yes there are a few in krakow… even thought all polish people I know, not one of them is a vegi

Then I went to a place called Bielsko Biala where another friend lives, I met him through the company I work for. We took a cable car up the mountain and spend the next 5 hours trekking down. It was great! I haven’t been in snow in such a long time I almost forgot what it looks like…
Oh, I lied I do know one polish vegi… its my friends wife
Then its was back to Krakow and catch my flight home!

Will post picture!