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In the Netherlands

It has been a week that I’m in the Netherlands and yet I haven’t time to update my blog. I arrived here on last Sunday afternoon. Ki was picking me up at Düsseldorf international airport. From Düsseldorf to Nuenen took around 40 minutes of traveling by car.

I was very tired, I spent the rest of the day (Sunday) and Monday to have some rest. Then on Tuesday I got sick, I got flu and cough until now. That day I must go to Roermond, where the QnAp new office located. I feel OK in the morning, but in the afternoon I start feeling so tired and I got fever. In the evening I took a nap for a couple of hours and feeling better when I woke up.
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Netherlands Here I Come!

It has been more than one year ago since my last post on this category, it was because I already went back to Indonesia. But now I’ll start to post on this category as I’ll leave for the Netherlands tomorrow night.

After waiting for more than 3 weeks for visa – yes, 3 weeks! – I got my visa on last Thursday. I had problem with the embassy that asking for too much legal documents. It’s very different with last year. Last year it was very easy to get the visa and it only need 1 week for the embassy to issue my visa. I think it’s because I’m applying the visa together with 2 of my colleagues, so there are 3 people applying on the same time with the same inviter.
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Closing Open DNS Problem on BIND

Today I’m installing new CPanel server which come with BIND on it. After finished installing, I look at DNSReport website and found out that the DNS server have “open DNS” problem.

Here is easy fix for open DNS problem, all you need to do is modify your

/etc/named.conf

file to look like this:

acl "trusted" {
      11.22.33.44;
      44.33.22.11;
      66.55.44.33;
      127.0.0.1;
};
 
options {
      directory "/var/named";
      version "not currently available";
      allow-recursion { trusted; };
      allow-notify { trusted; };
      allow-transfer { trusted; };
};

Where all IP addresses are your nameserver IPs, including cluster server IP if you set it.