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A river here he viewed so lovely bright,
Fain would she meet the youth with hasty feet,
And well deserved to be reputed fair.
'Bright youth," she cries," whom all thy features prove A god, and, if a god, the god of love;
But if a mortal, blest thy nurse's breast,
Blest are thy parents, and thy sisters blest:
But, oh! how blest! how more than blest thy bride,
Allied in bliss, if any yet allied.
If so, let mine the stolen enjoyments be;
If not, behold a willing bride in me."
The boy knew nought of love, and, touched with shame, He strove, and blusht, but still the blush became :
In rising blushes still fresh beauties rose;
And such the moon, when all her silver white
Now all undrest upon the banks he stood, And clapt his sides and leapt into the flood: His lovely limbs the silver waves divide, His limbs appear more lovely through the tide; As lilies shut within a crystal case, Receive a glossy lustre from the glass. "He's mine, he's all my own," the Naïad cries, And flings off all, and after him she flies. And now she fastens on him as he swims, And holds him close, and wraps about his limbs. The more the boy resisted, and was coy, The more she clipt and kist the struggling boy. So when the wriggling snake is snatcht on high In eagle's claws, and hisses in the sky, Around the foe his twirling tail he flings, And twists her legs, and writhes about her wings.
The restless boy still obstinately strove
"And why, coy youth," she cries, "why thus unkind!
So prayed the nymph, nor did she pray in vain:
Last in one face are both their faces joined,
The boy, thus lost in woman, now surveyed
The heavenly parents answered, from on high,
THE story of Phaeton is told with a greater air of majesty and grandeur than any other in all Ovid. It is, indeed, the most important subject he treats of, except the deluge; and
I cannot but believe that this is the conflagration he hints at in the first book.
Esse quoque in fatis reminiscitur affore tempus
(though the learned apply those verses to the future burning of the world,) for it fully answers that description, if the Cœli miserere tui, circumspice utrumque, Fumat uterque polus.
Fumat uterque polus-comes up to correptaque regia cœli-Besides, it is Ovid's custom to prepare the reader for a following story, by giving such intimations of it in a foregoing one, which was more particularly necessary to be done before he led us into so strange a story as this is he is now upon. P. 87, 1. 7.-For in the portal, &c.] We have here the picture of the universe drawn in little.
Balænarumque prementem
Ægeon makes a diverting figure in it.
Facies non omnibus una
Nec diversa tamen: qualem decet esse sororum.
The thought is very pretty, of giving Doris and her daughters such a difference in their looks as is natural to different persons, and yet such a likeness as showed their affinity.
Terra viros, urbesque gerit, sylvasque, ferasque,
The less important figures are well huddled together in the promiscuous description at the end, which very well represents what painters call a group.
Circum caput omne micantes
P. 88, 1. 21.—And flung the blaze, &c.] It gives us a great image of Phoebus, that the youth was forced to look on him at a distance, and not able to approach him till he had lain1
1 Had lain aside.] He uses lain for laid very improperly here and elsewhere, on the idea, I suppose, that the verb lay has two perfect participles; just as the verb load has loaded and loaden. But the fact is otherwise and the reason is not far to seek. The double d in the regular participle loaded," having an ill sound, the ear gradually introduces loaden, which our nicer writers, and amongst the rest our author, prefers to loaded, though the last is not entirely disused. There was not the same reason for changing laid to lain; and the use has never prevailed: if it had, "had lain aside" is, by accident, better than "had laid aside;"
aside the circle of rays that cast such a glory about his head. And, indeed, we may every where observe in Ovid, that he never fails of a due loftiness in his ideas, though he wants it in his words. And this I think infinitely better than to have sublime expressions and mean thoughts, which is generally the true character of Claudian and Statius. But this is not considered by them who run down Ovid in the gross, for a low, middle way of writing. What can be more simple and unadorned than his description of Enceladus in the sixth book?
Nititur ille quidem, pugnatque resurgere sæpe,
But the image we have here is truly great and sublime, of a giant vomiting out a tempest of fire, and heaving up all Sicily, with the body of an island upon his breast, and a vast promontory on either arm.
There are few books that have had worse commentators on them than Ovid's Metamorphoses. Those of the graver sort have been wholly taken up in the mythologies, and think they have appeared very judicious, if they have shown us out of an old author that Ovid is mistaken in a pedigree, or has turned such a person into a wolf that ought to have been made a tiger. Others have employed themselves on what never entered into the poet's thoughts, in adapting a dull moral to every story, and making the persons of his poems to be only nicknames for such virtues or vices: particularly the pious commentator, Alexander Ross, has dived deeper into our author's design than any of the rest; for he discovers in him the greatest mysteries of the Christian religion, and finds almost in every page some typical representation of the world, the flesh, and the devil. But if these writers have gone too deep, others have been wholly employed in the surface, most of them serving only to help out a school-boy in the construing part; or if they go out of their way, it is only to mark out the gnome of the author, as they call them, which are generally the heaviest pieces of a
and that meliority of sound induced, no doubt, our delicate writer, who was all ear, to prefer " lain," in this place, to laid, without reflecting that the established practice was, for good reason, against him." Lain" is, properly, the perfect participle of lie-laid, of lay.


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Yesterday's trailer for Thor: Ragnarok wasn't just a ripping good use of Led Zeppelin's Immigrant song. It was also packed to the rafters with nods and clues to the film. The kind of clues that only an obsessive freak would spend hours rewatching a two minute trailer for so that he could discover all of them. Well as Odin is my witness, I am that obsessive freak. Here's everything that we discovered so far in the first trailer, so get ready to Ragnarok and roll.
Stripped of his hammer, beaten down and bound to rot in the depths of Nifleheim: Thor is having a bad day so far. Set in the Asgardian Realm of the dead, this scene clearly takes place shortly after the Odinson get served the mother of all butt-whippings by Hela that leaves the Thunder god in such a precarious state.
"Now, I know what you're thinking. 'How did this happen?' Well, it's a long story." At least Thor has a sunnier disposition this time around, which is a hell of an improvement from his previous solo flick, the Dark World. Thor isn't meant to be a brooding demigod who barely cracks a smile, something that director Taika Waititi clearly understands from the opening moments of this teaser.
Flashback to New York, as we're about to receive our first look at Cate Blanchett's Hela. In the comics, she's a death-goddess bound to Hel. She's also the absolute ruler of that realm, the ultimate power within its confines and she commands the dead as her own personal army. Hela's plots usually revolve around her wanting to annex the realm of Valhalla and add the chosen dead of that warrior heaven to her kingdom, a plot that Thor has thwarted several times over already.
Thing is Hela is in a totally different league to Thor. Her power within her realm is enough to challenge Odin himself, as she commands the forces of life and death. Power that often extends outside of Hel. So how do you establish Hela as a force to be reckoned with from the start?
By having her break that which was thought unbreakable. Thor's Uru hammer Mjolnir has been broken several times in the comics before, but this is the first time we get to see the Thunder God's signature weapon torn asunder like this in the movies. Hela is not messing around now that she has managed to escape Hel.
Who's that next to Thor? Doctor Strange? I'd wager that's actually Loki, as the two attempt to track down their missing father Odin and instead run afoul of Hela.
Sweet Valhalla, this movie is somehow managing to draw more from its source material than anything else in the Marvel library. Hela's entire look is ripped straight from the Silver Age here, massive horns and all. It's worth noting that Hela is Loki's daughter in the original mythology of Asgard, although I doubt that'll be the case in Ragnarok. What is intriguing however, is that Hela's costume shares many design ideas with what Loki usually wears: Black, gold and green accents. There's definitely a connection here between the two.
Back to Asgard, which is looking better than ever. I see the Rainbow bridge to Midgard and the other realms has been properly restored once again. What a beautiful day.
Ah crap. "Asgard is dead" says Hela, and she's ready to kickstart Ragnarok herself, with or without several realm-destroying monsters at her side.
Thing is, there happens to be a lot of explosive fire at this point. Fire, which happens to be a trademark of the Muspelheim demon Surtur, who also happens to be a crucial part of the Ragnarok cycle. Is Marvel keeping his appearance a secret for the time being? I certainly hope so, as that's the kind of enemy that you keep in reserve as an ace up your sleeve.
Surtur also wields the Twilight Sword, a weapon capable of untold devastation and easily able to kill gods. The kind of devastation that we're seeing play out here in the following scenes of Asgard being torn asunder. Again, I'm just guessing here. This could also be Hela unleashing the fires of Niflheim on Asgard, so who knows really.
One fall from grace later…
…And we're on Sakaar! First seen during the Planet Hulk comic book storyline, Sakaar is a planet with a very distinct division between the haves and have-nots. Marvel's version of the planet is clearly blending several storylines into one digestible experience, as Thor finds himself far from home and trapped in the scrapyards of the planet.
At least the locals are friendly, right?
I may have spoken too soon.
Here we have Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie, one of the legendary warriors who ferries souls from the battlefields of the realms to their eternal reward in Valhalla. It's worth noting that Valkyrie's looks is very very different here in this scene, but it still retains some Asgardian elements. So what's she doing hanging around as a scavenger on Sakaar?
It looks like Thor isn't the only warrior who fell from grace. In a scene that very much looks like it took place from inside of Hel, the Valkyries lead a charge against Hela, presumably in an attempt to stop her poaching souls meant for Valhalla. It's an utterly gorgeous scene here, like a slow motion fresco painting come to life.
But also a futile act, as Valkyrie and her fellow warrior-sisters find themselves utterly outclassed and broken at the hands of Hela. Valkyrie's costume has a few more signature traits from the comic book source material here, most notably a blue cape. I still can't get over just how artistic this entire flashback is.
No hammer, no hair. Thor's about to receive a buzz-cut that resembles his current comic book appearance.
You know what I love about Jeff Goldblum as the Grandmaster? It's that even with the power as an Elder of the universe, he's still… Jeff Goldblum. No over the top delivery of his lines here, no eating of the scenery that Benecio Del Toro engaged in as the Collector in Guardians of the Galaxy. Just pure Goldblum. Remember kids, Goldblum always finds a way.
Hey, it's Idris Elba as Heimdall! I bet Marvel offered him something that none of the previous two films could: A chance to appear on the big screen without having to wear that stupidly massive helmet again. Jokes aside, it looks like Heimdall is facing the Ragnarok on his own as Hela sends her undead army to break the all-seeing god before he can ruin her plans.
JUDGEMENT TIME! That's best Dredd Karl Urban up there, playing Skurge. Usually an ally of the Enchantress, the mostly mute Skurge is an executioner. Mostly a villain and sometimes a hero, Skurge is clearly holding back the forces of one of the antagonists here, and he's not afraid to make use of Midgard weaponry to do so. Another pitch perfect translation from the comics.
Remember, Thor: The Dark World ended with Loki triumphant. Odin was missing in action, Loki had stolen his throne and everyone thought that he was dead. The greatest trick the god of mischief had ever pulled, you could say. So how does Hela impact on Loki's reign? You'd imagine that he's working with Hela here, or he has realized that Earth might be the only safe refuge for him as he clearly doesn't have the power needed to keep a death goddess from his doors.
Key point though, is that the only side that Loki is usually on, is his own.
There's a lot of Al Williamson's influence in the visual design of Ragnarok so far. For the uninitiated, Williamson was an artist who made Thor look like a cosmic romp of joy in the 1980s. His art was easily on par with the greats and was instantly recognizable for being so bombastic and colourful. Influences which I'm seeing plenty of here as the Odinson finally dons a signature helmet once again.
Did I mention those Planet Hulk references yet? Because I really should do that more often. The Hulk is back, and his gladiator armour looks like it was ripped straight from the comics.
I like to imagine that Thor is channeling everyone who saw this trailer for the first time at this exact moment.
The Grandmaster is honestly confused at this point, unlike Loki who clearly expected this move from his brother. Take notice of the everything and everyone behind the pair again: That's the Al Williamson art influence at play here again. Also, is that one guest in red to the right of the Grandmaster dressed as a Sleeping Celestial? He certainly looks the part.
And that's it folks! Thor has to knock some sense into the Hulk, get home to save Asgard and stop Hela for good. Thor: Ragnarok drops in November.
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Because TV is limited to face-to-face interaction and dialogue, it is becoming out of sync with the real way communication works, especially in shows that involve young people. So, I proprose we add "companion screens" to the standard TV screen. One will be a text message displayer, and one will be a monitor that displays Facebook/Twitter/other social media type messages.
These companion screens can be purchased and plugged into your TV for use during "txt-enhanced" shows, or if you have a compatible smartphone or laptop computer, you can log on to the TV show's website to receive the text/message feeds that way while you watch the program.
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by Elizabeth
(Louisville, KY)
We recently started practicing kendo at a dojo (judo/tae kwon do) with a raised mat/wooden floor area. I bow when I enter the dojo, but should I also bow every time I step on and off the raised floor/mat area?
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CBI to Regulate Inactive Accounts
EghtesadOnline: An official of the Central Bank of Iran has announced the details of regulations related to dormant accounts that were passed by the Money and Credit Council in early August.
"The large number of inactive bank accounts without any financial circulation has been on the agenda of the Iranian banking system in recent years, which has inflicted extra cost on banks for data maintenance while the big volume of these accounts raises the risk of abuse," Hamidreza Ghani-Abadi was also quoted as saying by Mehr News Agency.
The regulations concern identifying and managing the inactive accounts of banks and credit institutions, as well as protecting the rights of account owners and preventing any attempt to misuse those accounts.
The regulations also urge banks to set up a unified accounting system regarding dormant accounts, which also helps improve the transparency of their financial statements, according to Financial Tribune.
According to Ghani-Abadi, the head of CBI's Banking Research & Regulations Department, short-term deposits will be considered as dormant if they remain active for two years while the period for savings and current accounts has been set at three years and one year respectively.
He added that if an account is considered dormant, the bank is obligated to notify the owner of the annulment of the account via text message.
"After two years, if the owner of the account does not come to resolve the case, the bank should find another active account for the owner and move the money to that account," he said.
The CBI official noted that it takes nearly seven years for a savings account, five years of inactivity for short-term deposits and four years for a current account to be considered dormant, following which CBI can set maintenance fees—say under 500,000 rials ($13)—so that the accounts' balances gradually diminish.
Snowballing Problem
In recent years, deposit accounts of banks and credit institutions have increased, with a considerable number of them remaining inactive for a long time. For instance, many of these accounts have lost their value due to rising inflation or because the owner has stopped using the account.
Ghani-Abadi emphasized that the balance of each of these accounts might be meager but they are large in terms of number, so the overall value is a considerable amount that creates a good opportunity for money launderers to hide their operations behind the shadow of dormant accounts.
"These regulations only concern deposits under 20 million rials ($520), as we believe if the value of someone's account is higher than that, they will most probably come back for it," he added.
This is the first time Iranian banking policymakers have devised a set of firm regulations to manage banks' dormant accounts while earlier, there was only a few obscure bylaws.
The CBI official announced that as per the new regulations, an individual is only allowed to have one solo and one joint current account, one solo and one joint short-term deposit account and one solo and one joint savings account in each bank and credit institution.
He noted that decentralized accounts (traditional accounts) will also be closed within six months of the regulations' enforcement.
"Banks and credit institutions must report the figures on their dormant accounts to CBI's board of directors, supervisory department and internal auditors every six months," he said.
According to Ghani-Abadi, the implementation of new regulations is mandatory within three months of its notification.


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From the recording Walk By Faith
Words & Music By: Heath A. Kirkwood
Verse 1
In a world that defines love as but a mere feeling
Where words are more oft heard than seen.
So hard it may seem to understand why the Father
Would extend His own Son so that we could be free.
Verse 2
Each drop of blood cried out proving His passion
And healing was seen in each wound.
His love was the driving force behind every breath
As He said, "It is finished, my child paid in full."
Perfect love that surpasses beyond description
Offering each heart sweet and tender relief.
And each soul that's saved can proudly proclaim,
"God's Perfect Love lives in me!"
Verse 3
Just to know God would send His own Son as payment
For a price where my life was owed.
It proves that His love reaches farther than words;
The greatest love story that ever was told!


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No fancy videos, no reward tiers, no long-winded copy: "Sell Something" campaigns are all about one simple product and a single preorder price.
Crowdtilt's latest product is a stripped down, no-bulls*** version of crowdfunding. The crowdfunding startup today launched Sell Something, which enables folks to presell just about anything online: clothing, books, tickets, or anything else (that's legal, of course).
"This is crowdfunding distilled into its simplest form," Crowdtilt CEO James Beshara told VentureBeat.
"It's a very small [user interface] change, but it's been something that's been requested since we were about five hours old."
It has a few new options for folks who simply want to "Sell Something" rather than run a more traditional Crowdtilt campaign: Campaign creators can collect shipping addresses, set minimum and maximum allotments for products, and offer preferences for product sizes and style. It also has a new dashboard that enables sellers to keep track of campaign stats and communicate with specific contributors (if someone needs a refund, for example).
"People are using this feature to make money, so the more visibility they have, the better," said Beshara.
Setting up a Sell Something campaign requires far less effort than a typical crowdfunding effort. Within "literally 30 seconds, you can start collecting payments from around the world," promised Beshara.
To encourage early use of the tool, Crowdtilt is making Sell Something completely free to use for a "limited time" (it's unclear how long this period will last). The startup's not taking its regular 2.5 percent commission, and it's even ditching the 5 percent in credit card processing fees.
Crowdtilt's fraud prevention efforts for Sell Something resemble its practices for other crowdfunding campaigns: It has an algorithm that ferrets out shady parties, and it also manually reviews each campaign before the money is transferred to the creator. Like most other crowdfunding platforms, Crowdtilt won't guarantee order shipping and fulfillment, but Beshara said the company "takes fraud extremely seriously" and that it's seen "infinitesimal fraud to date after two years in the wild."
Crowdtilt has been operational since 2012. It separates itself from crowdfunding competitors by embracing openness: It doesn't editorially curate projects, unlike Kickstarter (and to a lesser extent, Indiegogo). It also has an open-source tool and facilitates Bitcoin payments.
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Saturday, April 19, 2014
The Canadian Gas Pump Scam
This one is astounding. It's a perfect example of the boiling frog syndrome. If you put a frog into hot water it will jump out but if you put it in warm water and gradually turn up the heat, it will stay there until it boils. That's why FBI Whistle blower Sibel Edmonds calls her blog the Boiling Frog Post.
Everyone complains about the price of gas. However, this new set of record jumps in price is yet another example of how the government has helped destroy a free market with a corporate monopoly. The oil companies can charge whatever they want whenever they want because there is no competition. They have a monopoly on the market that was created with tax dollars.
The Canadian Association of Energy and Pipeline Landowner Associations states: "Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain, like all pipelines in Canada, is a franchise monopoly. That means it is protected by government from competition. Which means it can do what monopolies always do: abuse customers by jacking prices and cutting service. In theory, government regulators are supposed to protect consumers from this sort of thing. But given the reality of regulator capture it doesn't work that way in practice."
In 1911 the United States Supreme Court ruled that Rockefeller' Standard Oil was an illegal monopoly. Now the politicians who accept huge campaign contributions form the oil companies call monopolies good business. We have no anti trust laws any more. That is the problem right there and right now it is a bigger threat to our civil liberty than Russia.
On top of that, Stephen Harper sold Canada's oil rights to Communist China so every time we get gouged at the pumps we are funding the military expansion of a Communist dictatorship. China supports North Korea just like the Hells Angels support puppet clubs.
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This is criminal. I live in an oil town and the only gas station we have the price is $1.35L. I can see the oil wells from my house and from the gas station. There are about 4500ish oil wells within an hour's drive radius.ReplyDelete
1 oil hauler can haul upwards of 14 loads of crude oil a day at a capacity of 24,000L (summer) or 30,000L (winter) PER LOAD. 220L in a barrel (bbl).
That's just 1 truck out of hundreds in the area. The truck might make between $60-$120 per load (then take away driver wage, fuel, repairs, parts, wear and tear, inspections, safety tickets, etc. The costs of running a fluid hauler keeps going up and then every couple years they get a new company in for cheaper, therefore stagnating the adjustment for inflation and marginalizing the profit for us.
The Chinese have bought up most of the producers - facilities, equipment, oil wells and future drills.
I'm pretty sick of the way things are going and it sickens me that we are giving away our natural resources for next to nothing then buying them back at an absurd price.
Contrast that with Kuwait, where they refine the oil very close to where it comes out of the ground, and it costs about $9.00 to fill up Chevy Suburban. (32 or 38 gal. tank)ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you for mentioning it being a bigger threat to civil liberty than Russia. ! Very important ... Washington and the bankers are also a bigger threat to civil liberty than Russia. I guess they work hand in hand with the oil people though. One and the same... have you been following the Cliven Bundy debacle ? ... I applaud the stand those people took. Some good old fashioned frontier justice won out over the "long arm of the law". Time for that to become more common. The will of the people.....Delete
I think that was me that said that not Trailrunner. Communist China is a bigger threat to our civil liberty than Russia but they don't seem too concerned about that either.Delete
I haven't been following the Bundy thing but it doesn't look that pivotal. Grazing rights on public land? Not really my concern. Expropriating land, that's my concern.
But I thought the puppit club's supported the Hells Angels? So which one is it? Doesn't make much sense to me the Angels supporting the puppit club's but your the expert not me.ReplyDelete


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A new video with english subtitles has been recently added to sk16.eu's youtube channel. It is a record of an oratory of Slovak Prime Minister Judr. Robert Fico which had been given in August 2015 in Banska Bystrica during a ceremony commemorating the most heroic event in modern Slovak history: Slovak National Upheaval against the nazi Slovak state.
As may be seen in the video:
In those seven minutes, doctor Fico repeatedly labels refugees as "threat" and instead of speaking about traumatised children in need (note that his speech does not contain the word "child" at all) he repeatedly uses the term "economic speculant", "smuggler" or "weapon merchants". A more cautious observer may notice even such statements as: "We invite merchants with death and smugglers to further commercial activities.", "I do not see any sank boats, "We shall not resolve the migration crisis problem in Pandorf." or "country must have a right to choose a human for whom it can really care".
At last but not least, an ultimate anti-integration argument is given by a statement: "we are not even able to integrate our Roma co-citizens of which we have hundreds of thousands". This all said by a man holding the highest executive office for the longest period in Slovak history.
More empiric discourse analysis is currently underway in order to determine whether this Fico's talk (and many others which have followed in a similiar vein) had potentially breached §423 and/or §424 of Slovak Penal Code. If yes, an official accusation shall follow and sk16.eu readers shall be first ones to be informed about it. And if not, we consider it nonetheless quite important to inform European audience about domestic profile of the Prime Minister of a country which shall assume, in less than 2 months, responsability for its historically first Presidency of Council of European Ministers. (See the english translation of the transcript.)
This is the second part of an informal interview with Slovak ex Prime Minister, professor Iveta Radicova. In this video, she addresses the question: "Do Slovak institutions behave like European ones ?" with enumeration of three principles which Slovak Republic aspires to share with Europe:
Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel switched on the first hydrogen plasma on 3 February 2016 at a ceremony attended by numerous guests from the realms of science and politics. This moment marked the start of scientific operation of Wendelstein 7-X, Europe's most powerful fusion reactor of a sterellator type which shall hopefully lead towards solutions able to cover mankind's growing energy without failing necessary climate goals.
This video is principially dedicated to those parts of Slovak audience (including non-negligeable parts of contemporary slovak government and parliament) who are unable to distinguish Arabs from Persians or Sufi masters from Taliban. Slovak subtitles by Jan Gordulic.
First person interviewed for sk16.eu project was first woman Prime Minister of Slovakia (from 2010 to 2012), professor Iveta Radicova. In this video, she answers a seemingly trivial question: "Is Slovakia in European Union ?".
Stay tuned for more answers from prof. Radicova & excuse us the low quality of the signal. (We haven't even started yet).
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And the Award Goes to… Queer Yiddishkeit
Last week's Grammy Award to the Klezmatics for their first all-English album, "Wonder Wheel," was joyously reported by many Jewish news outlets, including this newspaper. For all the media coverage, however, no mention was made of the Klezmatics' iconic status in the Queer Yiddishkeit movement.
Never heard of the Queer Yiddishkeit movement? Until last summer, neither did I.
Then, an Israeli friend told me he had learned from his (straight) daughter, a doctoral student in women's Yiddish literature at Berkeley, that a large proportion of her colleagues are gay. Really? Interviews over the next several months of past and present YIVO staff members, klezmer performers, Yiddish scholars and others confirmed it: Gay Jews have flocked to Yiddish and klezmer.
It's not that the Queer Yiddishkeit movement has been kept secret; it was more than 10 years old when, in 1996, The Village Voice reported that there was "a groundswell of gay and lesbian interest in Yiddish culture" and that the Klezmatics are "squarely in its forefront." The piece described KlezKamp — "kamp" being a double-entendre par excellence — a weeklong Yiddish folk-culture convention, as "the original spawning ground of Queer Yiddishkeit." Soon there emerged other gay-oriented klezmer groups with such irresistible names as Isle of Klezbos and Gay Iz Mir.
And the insurgency was not only in performance art. For example, the board of the National Yiddish Book Center, founded in 1980, consisted of "Aaron Lansky and five lesbians," according to Adrienne Cooper, director of program development of the Workmen's Circle and herself a Yiddish singer and actress.
All of which irritated the hell out of the usual suspects.
Well-placed individuals in the Yiddish and klezmer revivals described attempts by some to put a stop to a "takeover" by gay people. None of the individuals wanted to be quoted on the record.
Nevertheless, the snowball kept rolling. Alicia Svigals, a superb violinist and founding member of the Klezmatics, wrote that gay people "surprised each other and everyone else with our unexpectedly large numbers at Klezkamp, the YIVO summer program, and on the staff of YIVO and the National Yiddish Book Center. As younger gays started showing up, they brought queer sensibility, and then queer Yiddishism, with them."
The affinities between gay people and Yiddish, and especially bundist, culture are, when you think about it, obvious: both are staunchly secular, cosmopolitan, progressive and often marginalized. "Queer Yiddishkeit gives me permission to go back to the world of my grandparents without leaving myself behind," juggler Sara Felder said.
"It's about alienation from the Jewish religious establishment," said Alisa Solomon, a former staff writer for The Village Voice. "There's a kind of analogy people make with the marginalized status of Yiddish itself. It's an outsider stance."
(Spoilsport David Roskies, a professor of Jewish literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary, says Yiddish is popular because it provides an easy but short-lived way for people to connect with a piece of their Jewishness. "You don't have to belong to any organization, don't have to have any ideology," he said, according to a news report. "You can lay any trip you want to on Yiddish and feel you're doing something authentic and meaningful.") The modern Yiddish revival is a way for some progressive Jews, gay and straight alike, to repudiate the macho, Israel-inspired "new Jew." In the past 25 years, machismo has lost its appeal for many, and that much-maligned Eastern European intellectual no longer looks so bad.
It is also a way to be Jewish while avoiding "the Israel problem." (Having it both ways, klezmer musicians have played on the sidelines of recent Israel Day parades for the "Two Peoples, Two States" contingent, supporting Israel while opposing the occupation.)
The klezmer appeal, though, is not as obvious. Klezmer, after all, is closely associated with wedding music, a Jewish ritual largely denied to gay people. Furthermore, the old-time klezmorim weren't necessarily so progressive.
But there is the beauty of the sound of klezmer. And maybe because klezmer was primarily instrumental and therefore textless, it has been available to the staunchly secular revival. Which is not to say that klezmer was ever divorced from Jewish religion. But turning liturgical melodies into upbeat dance tunes, as klezmorim did, "was not an expression of opposition to religion"; it was, rather, a manifestation of "total comfort with it" as well as the "integratedness of religion into Jewish life," Svigals said. (Modern klezmorim embrace the wedding music tradition and turn it to queer purpose with such songs as "Kale-Kale Mazel Tov.")
The presence of gay people and gay themes in Yiddish culture, however, is not new. Queer Yiddishists tell us, for example, that Yiddish cinema in the 1930s contained "encrypted messages" on homosexuality — think Molly Picon in her trouser role in "Yidl Mitn Fidl," what Eve Sicular calls "cross-dressing in the service of family values." She refers to the "gay subtext of Yiddish cinema during its heyday, from the 1920s to the outbreak of World War II, which reveals distinctly Jewish concerns of the time" such as "conflicted identity, passing, and same-sex attachments."
With these and other examples, queer Yiddishists say that this movement is in no way a disjuncture with the Jewish past but is in fact old strands woven into a new and vibrant Jewish reality. With the Klezmatics as Exhibit A, they make a convincing case.
Kathleen Peratis, a partner in the New York law firm Outten & Golden, is a trustee of Human Rights Watch.


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Red Hat Training
A Red Hat training course is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain), the
DNS server included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It focuses on the structure of its configuration files, and describes how to administer it both locally and remotely.
15.2.1. Empty Zones
BIND configures a number of "empty zones" to prevent recursive servers from sending unnecessary queries to Internet servers that cannot handle them (thus creating delays and SERVFAIL responses to clients who query for them). These empty zones ensure that immediate and authoritative NXDOMAIN responses are returned instead. The configuration option
empty-zones-enable controls whether or not empty zones are created, whilst the option
disable-empty-zone can be used in addition to disable one or more empty zones from the list of default prefixes that would be used.
15.2.2. Configuring the named Service
named service is started, it reads the configuration from the files as described in Table 15.1, "The named Service Configuration Files".
Table 15.1. The named Service Configuration Files
|The main configuration file.
|An auxiliary directory for configuration files that are included in the main configuration file.
{ and
}). Note that when editing the file, you have to be careful not to make any syntax error, otherwise the
named service will not start. A typical
/etc/named.conf file is organized as follows:
statement-1 ["statement-1-name"] [statement-1-class] { option-1; option-2; option-N; }; statement-2 ["statement-2-name"] [statement-2-class] { option-1; option-2; option-N; }; statement-N ["statement-N-name"] [statement-N-class] { option-1; option-2; option-N; };
chroot environment. In that case, the initialization script will mount the above configuration files using the
mount --bind command, so that you can manage the configuration outside this environment. There is no need to copy anything into the
/var/named/chroot/ directory because it is mounted automatically. This simplifies maintenance since you do not need to take any special care of
BIND configuration files if it is run in a
chroot environment. You can organize everything as you would with
BIND not running in a
chroot environment.
/var/named/chroot/ directory if the corresponding mount point directories underneath
/var/named/chroot/ are empty:
/usr/lib/bind(architecture dependent).
chroot environment requires creating a backup copy and then editing the original file. Alternatively, use an editor with "edit-a-copy" mode disabled. For example, to edit the BIND's configuration file,
/etc/named.conf, with Vim while it is running in a
chroot environment, issue the following command as
vim -c "set backupcopy=yes" /etc/named.conf
22.214.171.124. Installing BIND in a chroot Environment
chroot environment, issue the following command as
yum install bind-chroot
named-chroot service, first check if the
named service is running by issuing the following command:
If it is running, it must be disabled.
systemctl status named
named, issue the following commands as
systemctl stop named
Then, to enable the
systemctl disable named
named-chroot service, issue the following commands as
systemctl enable named-chroot
systemctl start named-chroot
named-chroot service, issue the following command as
systemctl status named-chroot
184.108.40.206. Common Statement Types
- The
acl(Access Control List) statement allows you to define groups of hosts, so that they can be permitted or denied access to the nameserver. It takes the following form:
acl acl-name { match-element; ... };The acl-name statement name is the name of the access control list, and the match-element option is usually an individual
IPaddress (such as
10.0.1.1) or a Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) network notation (for example,
10.0.1.0/24). For a list of already defined keywords, see Table 15.2, "Predefined Access Control Lists".
Table 15.2. Predefined Access Control Lists
Keyword Description
Matches every
Matches any
IPaddress that is in use by the local system.
Matches any
IPaddress on any network to which the local system is connected.
Does not match any
aclstatement can be especially useful in conjunction with other statements such as
options. Example 15.2, "Using acl in Conjunction with Options" defines two access control lists,
red-hats, and adds
black-hatson the blacklist while granting
red-hatsnormal access.
Example 15.2. Using acl in Conjunction with Options
acl black-hats { 10.0.2.0/24; 192.168.0.0/24; 1234:5678::9abc/24; }; acl red-hats { 10.0.1.0/24; }; options { blackhole { black-hats; }; allow-query { red-hats; }; allow-query-cache { red-hats; }; };
- The
includestatement allows you to include files in the
/etc/named.conf, so that potentially sensitive data can be placed in a separate file with restricted permissions. It takes the following form:
include "file-name"The file-name statement name is an absolute path to a file.
Example 15.3. Including a File to /etc/named.conf
include "/etc/named.rfc1912.zones";
- The
optionsstatement allows you to define global server configuration options as well as to set defaults for other statements. It can be used to specify the location of the
namedworking directory, the types of queries allowed, and much more. It takes the following form:
options { option; ... };For a list of frequently used option directives, see Table 15.3, "Commonly Used Configuration Options" below.
Table 15.3. Commonly Used Configuration Options
Option Description
Specifies which hosts are allowed to query the nameserver for authoritative resource records. It accepts an access control list, a collection of
IPaddresses, or networks in the CIDR notation. All hosts are allowed by default.
Specifies which hosts are allowed to query the nameserver for non-authoritative data such as recursive queries. Only
localnetsare allowed by default.
Specifies which hosts are not allowed to query the nameserver. This option should be used when a particular host or network floods the server with requests. The default option is
Specifies a working directory for the
namedservice. The default option is
Used to disable one or more empty zones from the list of default prefixes that would be used. Can be specified in the options statement and also in view statements. It can be used multiple times.
Specifies whether to return DNSSEC related resource records. The default option is
Specifies whether to prove that resource records are authentic through DNSSEC. The default option is
Controls whether or not empty zones are created. Can be specified only in the options statement.
Specifies a list of valid
IPaddresses for nameservers to which the requests should be forwarded for resolution.
forwardSpecifies the behavior of the
forwardersdirective. It accepts the following options:
first— The server will query the nameservers listed in the
forwardersdirective before attempting to resolve the name on its own.
only— When unable to query the nameservers listed in the
forwardersdirective, the server will not attempt to resolve the name on its own.
Specifies the
IPv4network interface on which to listen for queries. On a
DNSserver that also acts as a gateway, you can use this option to answer queries originating from a single network only. All
IPv4interfaces are used by default.
Specifies the
IPv6network interface on which to listen for queries. On a
DNSserver that also acts as a gateway, you can use this option to answer queries originating from a single network only. All
IPv6interfaces are used by default.
Specifies the maximum amount of memory to be used for server caches. When the limit is reached, the server causes records to expire prematurely so that the limit is not exceeded. In a server with multiple views, the limit applies separately to the cache of each view. The default option is
notifySpecifies whether to notify the secondary nameservers when a zone is updated. It accepts the following options:
yes— The server will notify all secondary nameservers.
no— The server will not notify any secondary nameserver.
master-only— The server will notify primary server for the zone only.
explicit— The server will notify only the secondary servers that are specified in the
also-notifylist within a zone statement.
Specifies the location of the process ID file created by the
Specifies whether to act as a recursive server. The default option is
Specifies an alternate location for statistics files. The
/var/named/named.statsfile is used by default.
NoteThe directory used by
namedfor runtime data has been moved from the BIND default location,
/var/run/named/, to a new location
/run/named/. As a result, the PID file has been moved from the default location
/var/run/named/named.pidto the new location
/run/named/named.pid. In addition, the session-key file has been moved to
/run/named/session.key. These locations need to be specified by statements in the options section. See Example 15.4, "Using the options Statement".
ImportantTo prevent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, it is recommended that you use the
allow-query-cacheoption to restrict recursive
DNSservices for a particular subset of clients only.See the BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual referenced in Section 220.127.116.11, "Installed Documentation", and the
named.confmanual page for a complete list of available options.
Example 15.4. Using the options Statement
options { allow-query { localhost; }; listen-on port 53 { 127.0.0.1; }; listen-on-v6 port 53 { ::1; }; max-cache-size 256M; directory "/var/named"; statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt"; recursion yes; dnssec-enable yes; dnssec-validation yes; pid-file "/run/named/named.pid"; session-keyfile "/run/named/session.key"; };
- The
zonestatement allows you to define the characteristics of a zone, such as the location of its configuration file and zone-specific options, and can be used to override the global
optionsstatements. It takes the following form:
zone zone-name [zone-class] { option; ... };The zone-name attribute is the name of the zone, zone-class is the optional class of the zone, and option is a
zonestatement option as described in Table 15.4, "Commonly Used Options in Zone Statements".The zone-name attribute is particularly important, as it is the default value assigned for the
$ORIGINdirective used within the corresponding zone file located in the
/var/named/directory. The
nameddaemon appends the name of the zone to any non-fully qualified domain name listed in the zone file. For example, if a
zonestatement defines the namespace for
example.com, use
example.comas the zone-name so that it is placed at the end of host names within the
example.comzone file.For more information about zone files, see Section 15.2.3, "Editing Zone Files".
Table 15.4. Commonly Used Options in Zone Statements
Option Description
Specifies which clients are allowed to request information about this zone. This option overrides global
allow-queryoption. All query requests are allowed by default.
Specifies which secondary servers are allowed to request a transfer of the zone's information. All transfer requests are allowed by default.
allow-updateSpecifies which hosts are allowed to dynamically update information in their zone. The default option is to deny all dynamic update requests.Note that you should be careful when allowing hosts to update information about their zone. Do not set
IPaddresses in this option unless the server is in the trusted network. Instead, use TSIG key as described in Section 220.127.116.11, "Transaction SIGnatures (TSIG)".
Specifies the name of the file in the
namedworking directory that contains the zone's configuration data.
Specifies from which
IPaddresses to request authoritative zone information. This option is used only if the zone is defined as
notifySpecifies whether to notify the secondary nameservers when a zone is updated. It accepts the following options:
yes— The server will notify all secondary nameservers.
no— The server will not notify any secondary nameserver.
master-only— The server will notify primary server for the zone only.
explicit— The server will notify only the secondary servers that are specified in the
also-notifylist within a zone statement.
typeSpecifies the zone type. It accepts the following options:
Most changes to the
delegation-only— Enforces the delegation status of infrastructure zones such as COM, NET, or ORG. Any answer that is received without an explicit or implicit delegation is treated as
NXDOMAIN. This option is only applicable in TLDs (Top-Level Domain) or root zone files used in recursive or caching implementations.
forward— Forwards all requests for information about this zone to other nameservers.
hint— A special type of zone used to point to the root nameservers which resolve queries when a zone is not otherwise known. No configuration beyond the default is necessary with a
master— Designates the nameserver as authoritative for this zone. A zone should be set as the
masterif the zone's configuration files reside on the system.
slave— Designates the nameserver as a secondary server for this zone. Primary server is specified in the
/etc/named.conffile of a primary or secondary nameserver involve adding, modifying, or deleting
zonestatements, and only a small subset of
zonestatement options is usually needed for a nameserver to work efficiently.In Example 15.5, "A Zone Statement for a Primary nameserver", the zone is identified as
example.com, the type is set to
master, and the
namedservice is instructed to read the
/var/named/example.com.zonefile. It also allows only a secondary nameserver (
192.168.0.2) to transfer the zone.
Example 15.5. A Zone Statement for a Primary nameserver
zone "example.com" IN { type master; file "example.com.zone"; allow-transfer { 192.168.0.2; }; };A secondary server's
zonestatement is slightly different. The type is set to
slave, and the
mastersdirective is telling
IPaddress of the primary server.In Example 15.6, "A Zone Statement for a Secondary nameserver", the
namedservice is configured to query the primary server at the
IPaddress for information about the
example.comzone. The received information is then saved to the
/var/named/slaves/example.com.zonefile. Note that you have to put all secondary zones in the
/var/named/slaves/directory, otherwise the service will fail to transfer the zone.
Example 15.6. A Zone Statement for a Secondary nameserver
zone "example.com" { type slave; file "slaves/example.com.zone"; masters { 192.168.0.1; }; };
184.108.40.206. Other Statement Types
- The
controlsstatement allows you to configure various security requirements necessary to use the
rndccommand to administer the
namedservice.See Section 15.2.4, "Using the rndc Utility" for more information on the
rndcutility and its usage.
- The
keystatement allows you to define a particular key by name. Keys are used to authenticate various actions, such as secure updates or the use of the
rndccommand. Two options are used with
See Section 15.2.4, "Using the rndc Utility" for more information on the
algorithm algorithm-name— The type of algorithm to be used (for example,
secret "key-value"— The encrypted key.
rndcutility and its usage.
- The
loggingstatement allows you to use multiple types of logs, so called channels. By using the
channeloption within the statement, you can construct a customized type of log with its own file name (
file), size limit (
size), version number (
version), and level of importance (
severity). Once a customized channel is defined, a
categoryoption is used to categorize the channel and begin logging when the
namedservice is restarted.By default,
namedsends standard messages to the
rsyslogdaemon, which places them in
/var/log/messages. Several standard channels are built into BIND with various severity levels, such as
default_syslog(which handles informational logging messages) and
default_debug(which specifically handles debugging messages). A default category, called
default, uses the built-in channels to do normal logging without any special configuration.Customizing the logging process can be a very detailed process and is beyond the scope of this chapter. For information on creating custom BIND logs, see the BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual referenced in Section 126.96.36.199, "Installed Documentation".
- The
serverstatement allows you to specify options that affect how the
namedservice should respond to remote nameservers, especially with regard to notifications and zone transfers.The
transfer-formatoption controls the number of resource records that are sent with each message. It can be either
one-answer(only one resource record), or
many-answers(multiple resource records). Note that while the
many-answersoption is more efficient, it is not supported by older versions of BIND.
- The
trusted-keysstatement allows you to specify assorted public keys used for secure
DNS(DNSSEC). See Section 220.127.116.11, "DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC)" for more information on this topic.
- The
viewstatement allows you to create special views depending upon which network the host querying the nameserver is on. This allows some hosts to receive one answer regarding a zone while other hosts receive totally different information. Alternatively, certain zones may only be made available to particular trusted hosts while non-trusted hosts can only make queries for other zones.Multiple views can be used as long as their names are unique. The
match-clientsoption allows you to specify the
IPaddresses that apply to a particular view. If the
optionsstatement is used within a view, it overrides the already configured global options. Finally, most
viewstatements contain multiple
zonestatements that apply to the
match-clientslist.Note that the order in which the
viewstatements are listed is important, as the first statement that matches a particular client's
IPaddress is used. For more information on this topic, see Section 220.127.116.11, "Multiple Views".
22.214.171.124. Comment Tags
/etc/named.conf file can also contain comments. Comments are ignored by the
named service, but can prove useful when providing additional information to a user. The following are valid comment tags:
- Any text after the
//characters to the end of the line is considered a comment. For example:
notify yes; // notify all secondary nameservers
- Any text after the
#character to the end of the line is considered a comment. For example:
notify yes; # notify all secondary nameservers
- Any block of text enclosed in
*/is considered a comment. For example:
notify yes; /* notify all secondary nameservers */
15.2.3. Editing Zone Files
named working directory located in
/var/named/ by default. Each zone file is named according to the
file option in the
zone statement, usually in a way that relates to the domain in and identifies the file as containing zone data, such as
Table 15.5. The named Service Zone Files
| The working directory for the
named service. The nameserver is not allowed to write to this directory.
| The directory for secondary zones. This directory is writable by the
named service.
| The directory for other files, such as dynamic
DNS (DDNS) zones or managed DNSSEC keys. This directory is writable by the
named service.
| The directory for various statistics and debugging files. This directory is writable by the
named service.
184.108.40.206. Common Directives
$) followed by the name of the directive, and usually appear at the top of the file. The following directives are commonly used in zone files:
- The
$INCLUDEdirective allows you to include another file at the place where it appears, so that other zone settings can be stored in a separate zone file.
Example 15.7. Using the $INCLUDE Directive
$INCLUDE /var/named/penguin.example.com
- The
$ORIGINdirective allows you to append the domain name to unqualified records, such as those with the host name only. Note that the use of this directive is not necessary if the zone is specified in
/etc/named.conf, since the zone name is used by default.In Example 15.8, "Using the $ORIGIN Directive", any names used in resource records that do not end in a trailing period (the
.character) are appended with
Example 15.8. Using the $ORIGIN Directive
$ORIGIN example.com.
- The
$TTLdirective allows you to set the default Time to Live (TTL) value for the zone, that is, how long is a zone record valid. Each resource record can contain its own TTL value, which overrides this directive.Increasing this value allows remote nameservers to cache the zone information for a longer period of time, reducing the number of queries for the zone and lengthening the amount of time required to propagate resource record changes.
Example 15.9. Using the $TTL Directive
184.108.40.206. Common Resource Records
- The Address record specifies an
IPaddress to be assigned to a name. It takes the following form:
hostname IN A IP-addressIf the hostname value is omitted, the record will point to the last specified hostname.In Example 15.10, "Using the A Resource Record", the requests for
server1.example.comare pointed to
Example 15.10. Using the A Resource Record
server1 IN A 10.0.1.3 IN A 10.0.1.5
- The Canonical Name record maps one name to another. Because of this, this type of record is sometimes referred to as an alias record. It takes the following form:
alias-name IN CNAME real-name
CNAMErecords are most commonly used to point to services that use a common naming scheme, such as
wwwfor Web servers. However, there are multiple restrictions for their usage:
In Example 15.11, "Using the CNAME Resource Record", the
- CNAME records should not point to other CNAME records. This is mainly to avoid possible infinite loops.
- CNAME records should not contain other resource record types (such as A, NS, MX, and so on). The only exception are DNSSEC related records (RRSIG, NSEC, and so on) when the zone is signed.
- Other resource records that point to the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of a host (NS, MX, PTR) should not point to a CNAME record.
Arecord binds a host name to an
IPaddress, while the
CNAMErecord points the commonly used
wwwhost name to it.
Example 15.11. Using the CNAME Resource Record
server1 IN A 10.0.1.5 www IN CNAME server1
- The Mail Exchange record specifies where the mail sent to a particular namespace controlled by this zone should go. It takes the following form:
IN MX preference-value email-server-nameThe email-server-name is a fully qualified domain name (FQDN). The preference-value allows numerical ranking of the email servers for a namespace, giving preference to some email systems over others. The
MXresource record with the lowest preference-value is preferred over the others. However, multiple email servers can possess the same value to distribute email traffic evenly among them.In Example 15.12, "Using the MX Resource Record", the first
mail.example.comemail server is preferred to the
mail2.example.comemail server when receiving email destined for the
Example 15.12. Using the MX Resource Record
example.com. IN MX 10 mail.example.com. IN MX 20 mail2.example.com.
- The Nameserver record announces authoritative nameservers for a particular zone. It takes the following form:
IN NS nameserver-nameThe nameserver-name should be a fully qualified domain name (FQDN). Note that when two nameservers are listed as authoritative for the domain, it is not important whether these nameservers are secondary nameservers, or if one of them is a primary server. They are both still considered authoritative.
Example 15.13. Using the NS Resource Record
IN NS dns1.example.com. IN NS dns2.example.com.
- The Pointer record points to another part of the namespace. It takes the following form:
last-IP-digit IN PTR FQDN-of-systemThe last-IP-digit directive is the last number in an
IPaddress, and the FQDN-of-system is a fully qualified domain name (FQDN).
PTRrecords are primarily used for reverse name resolution, as they point
IPaddresses back to a particular name. See Section 188.8.131.52.2, "A Reverse Name Resolution Zone File" for examples of
PTRrecords in use.
- The Start of Authority record announces important authoritative information about a namespace to the nameserver. Located after the directives, it is the first resource record in a zone file. It takes the following form:
@ IN SOA primary-name-server hostmaster-email ( serial-number time-to-refresh time-to-retry time-to-expire minimum-TTL )The directives are as follows:
When configuring BIND, all times are specified in seconds. However, it is possible to use abbreviations when specifying units of time other than seconds, such as minutes (
- The
@symbol places the
$ORIGINdirective (or the zone's name if the
$ORIGINdirective is not set) as the namespace being defined by this
SOAresource record.
- The primary-name-server directive is the host name of the primary nameserver that is authoritative for this domain.
- The hostmaster-email directive is the email of the person to contact about the namespace.
- The serial-number directive is a numerical value incremented every time the zone file is altered to indicate it is time for the
namedservice to reload the zone.
- The time-to-refresh directive is the numerical value secondary nameservers use to determine how long to wait before asking the primary nameserver if any changes have been made to the zone.
- The time-to-retry directive is a numerical value used by secondary nameservers to determine the length of time to wait before issuing a refresh request in the event that the primary nameserver is not answering. If the primary server has not replied to a refresh request before the amount of time specified in the time-to-expire directive elapses, the secondary servers stop responding as an authority for requests concerning that namespace.
- In BIND 4 and 8, the minimum-TTL directive is the amount of time other nameservers cache the zone's information. In BIND 9, it defines how long negative answers are cached for. Caching of negative answers can be set to a maximum of 3 hours (
M), hours (
H), days (
D), and weeks (
W). Table 15.6, "Seconds compared to other time units" shows an amount of time in seconds and the equivalent time in another format.
Table 15.6. Seconds compared to other time units
Seconds Other Time Units 60
Example 15.14. Using the SOA Resource Record
@ IN SOA dns1.example.com. hostmaster.example.com. ( 2001062501 ; serial 21600 ; refresh after 6 hours 3600 ; retry after 1 hour 604800 ; expire after 1 week 86400 ) ; minimum TTL of 1 day
18.104.22.168. Comment Tags
named service, but can prove useful when providing additional information to the user. Any text after the semicolon character to the end of the line is considered a comment. For example:
604800 ; expire after 1 week
22.214.171.124. Example Usage
22.214.171.124.1. A Simple Zone File
SOA values.
Example 15.15. A simple zone file
$ORIGIN example.com. $TTL 86400 @ IN SOA dns1.example.com. hostmaster.example.com. ( 2001062501 ; serial 21600 ; refresh after 6 hours 3600 ; retry after 1 hour 604800 ; expire after 1 week 86400 ) ; minimum TTL of 1 day ; ; IN NS dns1.example.com. IN NS dns2.example.com. dns1 IN A 10.0.1.1 IN AAAA aaaa:bbbb::1 dns2 IN A 10.0.1.2 IN AAAA aaaa:bbbb::2 ; ; @ IN MX 10 mail.example.com. IN MX 20 mail2.example.com. mail IN A 10.0.1.5 IN AAAA aaaa:bbbb::5 mail2 IN A 10.0.1.6 IN AAAA aaaa:bbbb::6 ; ; ; This sample zone file illustrates sharing the same IP addresses ; for multiple services: ; services IN A 10.0.1.10 IN AAAA aaaa:bbbb::10 IN A 10.0.1.11 IN AAAA aaaa:bbbb::11 ftp IN CNAME services.example.com. www IN CNAME services.example.com. ; ;
dns1.example.com and
dns2.example.com, and are tied to the
10.0.1.1 and
IP addresses respectively using the
A record.
MX records point to
mail and
mail2 through
A records. Since these names do not end in a trailing period, the
$ORIGIN domain is placed after them, expanding them to
mail.example.com and
www.example.com (WWW), are pointed at the appropriate servers using the
CNAME record.
zone statement in the
/etc/named.conf similar to the following:
zone "example.com" IN { type master; file "example.com.zone"; allow-update { none; }; };
220.127.116.11.2. A Reverse Name Resolution Zone File
IP address in a particular namespace into a fully qualified domain name (FQDN). It looks very similar to a standard zone file, except that the
PTR resource records are used to link the
IP addresses to a fully qualified domain name as shown in Example 15.16, "A reverse name resolution zone file".
Example 15.16. A reverse name resolution zone file
$ORIGIN 1.0.10.in-addr.arpa. $TTL 86400 @ IN SOA dns1.example.com. hostmaster.example.com. ( 2001062501 ; serial 21600 ; refresh after 6 hours 3600 ; retry after 1 hour 604800 ; expire after 1 week 86400 ) ; minimum TTL of 1 day ; @ IN NS dns1.example.com. ; 1 IN PTR dns1.example.com. 2 IN PTR dns2.example.com. ; 5 IN PTR server1.example.com. 6 IN PTR server2.example.com. ; 3 IN PTR ftp.example.com. 4 IN PTR ftp.example.com.
IP addresses
10.0.1.1 through
10.0.1.6 are pointed to the corresponding fully qualified domain name.
zone statement in the
/etc/named.conf file similar to the following:
zone "1.0.10.in-addr.arpa" IN { type master; file "example.com.rr.zone"; allow-update { none; }; };
zone statement, except for the zone name. Note that a reverse name resolution zone requires the first three blocks of the
IP address reversed followed by
.in-addr.arpa. This allows the single block of
IP numbers used in the reverse name resolution zone file to be associated with the zone.
15.2.4. Using the rndc Utility
rndc utility is a command-line tool that allows you to administer the
named service, both locally and from a remote machine. Its usage is as follows:
rndc [option...] command [command-option]
220.127.116.11. Configuring the Utility
named must be configured to listen on the selected port (
953 by default), and an identical key must be used by both the service and the
rndc utility.
Table 15.7. Relevant files
rndc configuration is located in
/etc/rndc.conf. If the file does not exist, the utility will use the key located in
/etc/rndc.key, which was generated automatically during the installation process using the
rndc-confgen -a command.
named service is configured using the
controls statement in the
/etc/named.conf configuration file as described in Section 184.108.40.206, "Other Statement Types". Unless this statement is present, only the connections from the loopback address (
127.0.0.1) will be allowed, and the key located in
/etc/rndc.key will be used.
root is allowed to read the
/etc/rndc.key file:
chmod o-rwx /etc/rndc.key
220.127.116.11. Checking the Service Status
named service, use the following command:
rndc status
version: 9.7.0-P2-RedHat-9.7.0-5.P2.el6
CPUs found: 1
worker threads: 1
number of zones: 16
debug level: 0
xfers running: 0
xfers deferred: 0
soa queries in progress: 0
query logging is OFF
recursive clients: 0/0/1000
tcp clients: 0/100
server is up and running
126.96.36.199. Reloading the Configuration and Zones
rndc reload
server reload successful
reload command, for example:
rndc reload localhost
zone reload up-to-date
rndc reconfig
DNS (DDNS), make sure you run the
freeze command first:
rndc freeze localhost
thaw command to allow the
DDNS again and reload the zone:
rndc thaw localhost
The zone reload and thaw was successful.
220.127.116.11. Updating Zone Keys
sign command. For example:
rndc sign localhost
auto-dnssec option has to be set to
maintain in the zone statement. For example:
zone "localhost" IN { type master; file "named.localhost"; allow-update { none; }; auto-dnssec maintain; };
18.104.22.168. Enabling the DNSSEC Validation
rndc validation on
rndc validation off
options statement described in Section 18.104.22.168, "Common Statement Types" for information on how to configure this option in
18.104.22.168. Enabling the Query Logging
rndc querylog
status command as described in Section 22.214.171.124, "Checking the Service Status".
15.2.5. Using the dig Utility
dig utility is a command-line tool that allows you to perform
DNS lookups and debug a nameserver configuration. Its typical usage is as follows:
dig [@server] [option...] name type
184.108.40.206. Looking Up a Nameserver
dig name NS
dig utility is used to display nameservers for
Example 15.17. A sample nameserver lookup
dig example.com NS
; <<>> DiG 9.7.1-P2-RedHat-9.7.1-2.P2.fc13 <<>> example.com NS
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 57883
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;example.com. IN NS
example.com. 99374 IN NS a.iana-servers.net.
example.com. 99374 IN NS b.iana-servers.net.
;; Query time: 1 msec
;; WHEN: Wed Aug 18 18:04:06 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 77
18.104.22.168. Looking Up an IP Address
IP address assigned to a particular domain, use the command in the following form:
dig name A
dig utility is used to display the
IP address of
Example 15.18. A sample IP address lookup
dig example.com A
; <<>> DiG 9.7.1-P2-RedHat-9.7.1-2.P2.fc13 <<>> example.com A
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4849
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0
;example.com. IN A
example.com. 155606 IN A 126.96.36.199
example.com. 99175 IN NS a.iana-servers.net.
example.com. 99175 IN NS b.iana-servers.net.
;; Query time: 1 msec
;; WHEN: Wed Aug 18 18:07:25 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 93
22.214.171.124. Looking Up a Host Name
IP address, use the command in the following form:
dig utility is used to display the host name assigned to
Example 15.19. A Sample Host Name Lookup
dig -x 18.104.22.168
; <<>> DiG 9.7.1-P2-RedHat-9.7.1-2.P2.fc13 <<>> -x 188.8.131.52
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 29683
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 6
;10.32.0.192.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR
10.32.0.192.in-addr.arpa. 21600 IN PTR www.example.com.
32.0.192.in-addr.arpa. 21600 IN NS b.iana-servers.org.
32.0.192.in-addr.arpa. 21600 IN NS c.iana-servers.net.
32.0.192.in-addr.arpa. 21600 IN NS d.iana-servers.net.
32.0.192.in-addr.arpa. 21600 IN NS ns.icann.org.
32.0.192.in-addr.arpa. 21600 IN NS a.iana-servers.net.
a.iana-servers.net. 13688 IN A 220.127.116.11
b.iana-servers.org. 5844 IN A 126.96.36.199
b.iana-servers.org. 5844 IN AAAA 2001:610:240:2::c100:ec
c.iana-servers.net. 12173 IN A 184.108.40.206
c.iana-servers.net. 12173 IN AAAA 2001:648:2c30::1:10
ns.icann.org. 12884 IN A 184.108.40.206
;; Query time: 156 msec
;; WHEN: Wed Aug 18 18:25:15 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 310
15.2.6. Advanced Features of BIND
named service to provide name resolution services or to act as an authority for a particular domain. However, BIND version 9 has a number of advanced features that allow for a more secure and efficient
DNS service.
188.8.131.52. Multiple Views
DNS entries from clients outside of the local network, while allowing queries from clients inside the local network.
view statement to the
/etc/named.conf configuration file. Use the
match-clients option to match
IP addresses or entire networks and give them special options and zone data.
220.127.116.11. Incremental Zone Transfers (IXFR)
22.214.171.124. Transaction SIGnatures (TSIG)
IP address-based method of transfer authorization, since attackers would not only need to have access to the
IP address to transfer the zone, but they would also need to know the secret key.
IP address-based authentication only.
184.108.40.206. DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC)
DNS data, authenticated denial of existence, and data integrity. When a particular domain is marked as secure, the
SERVFAIL response is returned for each resource record that fails the validation.
dig utility as described in Section 15.2.5, "Using the dig Utility". Useful options are
+dnssec (requests DNSSEC-related resource records by setting the DNSSEC OK bit),
+cd (tells recursive nameserver not to validate the response), and
+bufsize=512 (changes the packet size to 512B to get through some firewalls).
22.214.171.124. Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
AAAA resource records, and the
listen-on-v6 directive as described in Table 15.3, "Commonly Used Configuration Options".
15.2.7. Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Use semicolons and curly brackets correctly
- An omitted semicolon or unmatched curly bracket in the
/etc/named.conffile can prevent the
namedservice from starting.
- Use period (the
.character) correctly
- In zone files, a period at the end of a domain name denotes a fully qualified domain name. If omitted, the
namedservice will append the name of the zone or the value of
$ORIGINto complete it.
- Increment the serial number when editing a zone file
- If the serial number is not incremented, the primary nameserver will have the correct, new information, but the secondary nameservers will never be notified of the change, and will not attempt to refresh their data of that zone.
- Configure the firewall
- If a firewall is blocking connections from the
namedservice to other nameservers, the recommended practice is to change the firewall settings.
WarningUsing a fixed
UDPsource port for
DNSqueries is a potential security vulnerability that could allow an attacker to conduct cache-poisoning attacks more easily. To prevent this, by default
DNSsends from a random ephemeral port. Configure your firewall to allow outgoing queries from a random
UDPsource port. The range
65535is used by default.
15.2.8. Additional Resources
188.8.131.52. Installed Documentation
- The main directory containing the most recent documentation. The directory contains the BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual in HTML and PDF formats, which details BIND resource requirements, how to configure different types of nameservers, how to perform load balancing, and other advanced topics.
- The directory containing examples of
namedconfiguration files.
- The manual page for the
rndcname server control utility, containing documentation on its usage.
- The manual page for the Internet domain name server
named, containing documentation on assorted arguments that can be used to control the BIND nameserver daemon.
- The manual page for the lightweight resolver daemon
lwresd, containing documentation on the daemon and its usage.
- The manual page with a comprehensive list of options available within the
namedconfiguration file.
- The manual page with a comprehensive list of options available within the
rndcconfiguration file.
220.127.116.11. Online Resources
- https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/770133
- A Red Hat Knowledgebase article about running BIND in a
chrootenvironment, including the differences compared to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
- https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Security_Guide/
- The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Security Guide has a comprehensive section on DNSSEC.
- https://www.icann.org/namecollision
- The ICANN FAQ on domain name collision.


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The Civil Marriage of the Prince and Princess of Monaco
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Springtime in Monaco
Last week, on Saturday, 7 May, while her daughter Charlotte launched a new project in Spain, Princess Caroline de Monaco was presiding over a 44-year-old tradition in Monaco. The Place du Casino in Monte-Carlo was bursting with sensational scents and colors as the Princess inaugurated the 44th International Flower Show (Concours Internationl de Bouquets). And the Princess herself appeared in the mood for springtime. She wore a knee-length floral dress, … Continue readingPosted in Germany, Monaco | Tagged Fashion, Flower Show, House of Hanover, Princess Alexandra of Hanover, Princess Caroline of Hanover | Leave a comment
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Profile: Melanie-Antoinette de Massy
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The Hannover Brothers
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Charlene Wittstock's Visit to South Africa
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Caroline attends International Feline Show
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Monaco's Princely Family Ends the Month on High Notes of Religion, Sport & Fashion
The Monegasque people are busy this week with the feast days of their patron saint, Saint Devote, which is celebrated over two days in the last week of January. There is also the circus happening, and that ends on the same day of the feast. Last week, we can imagine that the tiny principality was amok with the roaring of car engines and the smell of burning rubber — the … Continue readingPosted in Monaco | Tagged Albert II of Monaco, Birthday, Celebrities, Charlotte Casiraghi, France, House of Hanover, Mass, Princess Caroline of Hanover, Princess Charlène of Monaco, Religion, Saint Dévote | Leave a comment
Charlene Joins the Circus; Caroline Raises Funds for Burundi Orphans
Charlene Wittstock, Monaco's soon-to-be Princess Consort, accompanied her fiance, the Sovereign Prince Albert II, today to the Big Tent in Fontvieille for the awards ceremony of the 35th edition International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo. Grimaldi cousins Keith Sebastian Knecht and Laetitia de Massy Brouwer sat behind Prince Albert, Charlene, Princess Stephanie and Miss Pauline Ducruet. As over the weekend, the color black, with the one exception being the blue Scarf … Continue readingPosted in Germany, Monaco | Tagged Albert II of Monaco, AMADE, Belgium, Celebrities, Charlotte Casiraghi, Circus, Fashion, France, House of Hanover, Patronage, Princess Caroline of Hanover, Princess Charlène of Monaco, Princess Stéphanie of Monaco, Working Visit | Leave a comment
Circus de Monaco: 35 Years and Still Going Strong
Elephants, horses, camels, and tigers! Oh no! Once again, Monaco is overrun by animals, acrobats, and clowns. Saturday afternoon, there was the parade of the circus animals from the Big Tent in Fontvieille, winding its way through the streets and around the Rock, and ending at the Palace, where the acts began! Besides the five animal acts, there was the high-wire act by the Weishet troupe. This ritual of the … Continue readingPosted in Monaco | Tagged Albert II of Monaco, Animals, Circus, Patronage, Pierre Casiraghi, Princess Alexandra of Hanover, Princess Stéphanie of Monaco | 1 Comment
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Prince Albert rides on a camel to see the Pyramids of Giza
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United Family of Monaco Evokes the Christmas Spirit
It must have been a bit nippy in Monaco on Wednesday, 15 December. Imagine it! In the middle of December, the ladies of the Principality had to wear long sleeves! Princess Caroline wore a beautiful green wool jacket by her favorite designer (do we really need to name him?). She pinned a Christmas tree brooch on the jacket. Princess Stephanie opted for a black peacoat, the exact color of her … Continue readingPosted in Germany, Monaco | Tagged Albert II of Monaco, Christmas, House of Hanover, International Olympic Committee, Legal Matters, Princess Caroline of Hanover, Princess Charlène of Monaco, Princess Stéphanie of Monaco | Leave a comment


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- Historic
- Moorland/Heathland
- Nature Reserve
- Accessible parking
- Accessible toilets
- Information centre
- Cafe or shop
- Dog friendly
Explore the Dorset woodlands and heaths that inspired author Thomas Hardy featured in the recent film, Far from the Maddening Crowd. From the new visitor centre and café the Tramper allows you to enjoy woodland paths leading to the entrance of Hardy's Cottage – a classic 'cob and thatch' cottage where he was born and wrote his early works.
Note that the Tramper provides access only to the entrance, not around, the cottage (an admission is charged for this part of the property).
The site is jointly managed by the National Trust and Dorset County Council's Countryside Team - visit this webpage for a great selection of information about what you can enjoy at Hardy's Cottage and Thorncombe Woodlands.
Booking is strongly recommended - in particular for first-time users who will be provided with a short introduction to the Tramper controls and operation before heading out.
For opening hours please visit the location's webpage - click here.
Additional information on the latest news is available via their Facebook page here.
Contact Hardy's Birthplace Visitor Centre and Woodland
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With so many skincare products out there and more and more being introduced daily it can get tricky keeping track of what does what, but no worries, we've got you! You may have heard of toners already because they've been on the market for a while and there's a good reason why this product has withstood the test of time.
So what exactly is a toner?
A toner is made of hydrosols or floral water with some containing herbal or floral extracts to give it that extra boost of nutrients. A toner is water based and penetrates fast into the skin thus hydrating it. You could also use a toner to help remove dead skin cells on the skin surface - helping tone it and giving it that healthy glow.
When to use it ?
Toners should be used after cleansing on a clean face and neck, as it helps remove dirt that got away from your cleanser. Allow your toner to dry, dowsing your skin with nutrients before moving to the next step in your daily routine.
Why is it essential?
Toners are a beauty essential because of their multifunctional characteristics - they help exfoliate, tone and hydrate skin. Toners have varying properties depending on the ingredients and you can choose toners specific to your skin type.