[conspire] (forw) [BALUG-Admin] Weekly cron job to check on my domains' nameservers

[Steve Litt]

Rick Moen said on Fri, 8 Sep 2023 11:38:26 -0700

>Which was ironic, because the master nameserver (mine) was literally
>the only one that hadn't flaked out, and was offline only because of
>absence of electricity.

I fall victim to this dysfunction regularly. One reason is that's just
part of my personality: Lazy. Another reason is that if I strongly
guarded against everything that could go wrong, I'd have no time to use
the stuff. This includes my house, my car, and my computer activities.
Of course, I do tend to practice preventative maintenance on everything.

I had an example of getting bitten by this last night. An rsync backup
to local external hard disk looked really twitchy. Matter of fact, it
stalled and I had to Ctrl+C out of it. Ugh! 

I came back and did an fsck on the device after unmounting it. It
repaired something. Another backup looked twitchy but finished. I
unmounted and did an fsck -y, which repaired, and then another, which
read good. I did another backup to this disk, and it went well.

Nevertheless, out of an abundance of caution I just ordered a
replacement drive, and will use the iffy one for something else.

SteveT

Steve Litt