[Sheflug] Opera & BIND-9

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

Contrary to the subject, this isn't about problems with the interaction
of the above software. Rather, it should be entitled "Two new pieces of
software I'm playing with that do odd things - anyone else had the same
problem?"

Starting with the good, I'm setting up BIND-9 at work. Everything works
lovely, except that I get a couple of slightly worrying messages in the
log - 'refresh_timeout', I think it was. Basically, it's compaining when
doing zone transfers (the transfers actually work though). I'm
suspecting it's just occasional packet loss, which times out and it
retries. It would make sense, 'cos it's zone transfering across the
internet (sort of), so there is the potential for packet loss.
Certainly, my lab setup at work was exactly the same config-wise, and I
didn't get the problem. So, in summary, everything works, I just want
clean log files - I did a search, and I found one other person reporting
the message on the BIND users mail list, but didn't get a response. Ho
hum. Anyone else playing with BIND-9?

Moving onto the bad - Opera. I have it running under Debian
stable/testing, 2.2.2 +. The '+' includes glibc-2.2, which I think maybe
causing the problem. It runs, but ohhh my gawd is it unstable. I got the
.deb of the static version, and it segfaults all over the place :( I
have to say, I don't like it a great deal, MDI annoys me, not being able
to see the link I have the mouse pointer over annoys me, viewing source
in 'xview' annoys me, etc. etc. (no, I haven't configured it yet :).
But, it is faster than Moz on my system (although, I suspect Galeon will
run around the same speed, although I haven't got a version of it on my
machine currently), but Moz looks absolutely rock-solid compared to
Opera. Weird. Anyone else had this problem?

Cheers,

Alex.
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