I just changed the name of the main machine from draisey.ca to free.draisey.ca. I have long been using the name as a proxy for the machine to differentiate it from the gestalt of the draisey computing kingdom but, as the only server on the greater internet, the draisey.ca name for the machine itself stuck; if I hadn’t added some Google Apps into the draisey.ca zone I probably would never bothered with the name change. I haven’t hit any snags so far, although I just remembered that I shall need to update the reverse DNS records too. (OK, just did that now though It’ll take a few hours to filter through the database)

Changing the name doesn’t seem to have any adverse effects on ssh, which pleases me immensely. I shut down most of the ssl services years ago as bieng mostly useless. I was going to have to modify my email handling anyway — let’s try a quick bounce — well that worked so it looks like any modifications I make should be reasonably painless. The database and web server are running well enough for me to key this blog entry, so no great worries there. The clock seems OK.

All seems well.