Gladserv Partners with Social Innovation Camp

Gladserv has sponsored the latest Social Innovation Camp, to be held in Scotland from 19-21 June 2009.

We are providing a year of free hosting services to the winner, and will be providing server space for the weekend to help support this initiative.

SICamp is about taking a great social idea, and using the leverage of the Internet to take the benefit to as many people as possible. That, to me, is really cool and worth supporting.

Fedora Core 11 almost cooked

Fedora Core 11 (Leonidas) is due for release on the 9th of June - that's next week - if there are no further delays in the schedule.

Gladserv will make Leonidas available for managed hosting as soon as it is released, with virtual server images tested and available as soon as possible.

Jaunty Jackalope Server Released

Jaunty Jackalope virtual servers are available from Gladserv from tomorrow (Thursday 23 April 2009).

Ubuntu are releasing the latest version of their server platform and Gladserv are offering this as a virtual hosting service.

Contact us on +44 (0) 131 510 0340 for more information and to create an account.

Scottish Software Awards Dinner

The Awards dinner was held at the Radisson SAS in Glasgow and was well attended again this year. It was a great night out and a chance to catch up with those of our partner companies, clients and resellers who were able to attend.

We were shortlisted alongside National Semiconductor UK and Wolfson Microelectronics for the Open Source Business Excellence Award. Congratulations to Wolfson on winning the award this year.

Congratulations also go to one of our partners, Valley Technology, who made the shortlist for two awards: Best Wireless/Mobile Software Solution and Scottish Software Company 2008.

Gladserv Nominated for Scottish Open Source Awards

For the second year running, Gladserv is a nominee for the Scottish Open Source Awards. The Awards are held jointly with the Scottish Software Awards at the Radisson SAS in Glasgow on Friday 28th November 2008. See you there!

postmaster@me.com

Despite being owned by Apple, me.com is very broken. I've added it to Gladserv's "broken sender domains" list so it is excempted from RFC checks until they can fix their servers, because it rejects email for postmaster@me.com (an RFC MUST).

telnet smtp-mx002.me.com 25
Trying 17.148.20.82...
Connected to smtp-mx002.me.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 smtpin133-bge351000 -- Server ESMTP (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging
Server 6.3-6.03 (built Mar 14 2008; 32bit))
HELO gladserv.com
250 smtpin133-bge351000 OK, [89.16.162.35].
MAIL FROM: postmaster@gladserv.com
250 2.5.0 Address Ok.
RCPT TO: postmaster@me.com
550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: postmaster@me.com

Also, several of the MXs appear also appear to be overloaded:

telnet smtp-mx001.me.com 25
Trying 17.148.20.81...
Connected to smtp-mx001.me.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
452 try later
Connection closed by foreign host.

It would be really nice if the big guys could stick to the rules.
Anyone doing basic RFC checks will be rejecting this domain.

Looks like others are having the same problem.

Checking further reveals AOL are rejecting @me.com addresses, amongst
others.

Even worse is that clients were not receiving bounce messages from the me.com servers to tell them what had happened to their email.

I've added an exception for this domain to Gladserv's email servers so
email from me.com will get through. I've also submitted them to www.rfc-ignorant.org to encourage them to play by the rules.

Nameserver (DNS) upgrades

As part of our rolling upgrade cycle, new nameservers are being brought online and older ones retired. For all domains that we manage these changes will happen automatically, and there is no expected impact on any services.