bugs

MongoDB is half-baked

I needed to copy data from one MongoDB database to another. MongoDB supplies the mongodump and mongorestore tools to do exactly that. I haven't had to use them lately, so the first thing I do is to check the command line options: $ mongodump --help Export MongoDB data to BSON files…

Comcast/Netgear routers eat SRV records

I've been troubleshooting an issue with two Comcast users in the Memphis area. One is a recent Comcast subscriber, and the other has been using Comcast for months, noticed this issue, and invented a kludgey workaround on his own that involves several VPNs. After lots of head-scratching, I was able…