Has anyone written Ruby code to programmatically modify their DNS? - ruby

There are a bunch of services (dyndns, nettica, etc.) that offer API's but I'm having trouble with Nettica's and I was just wondering if anyone has a nice gem suggestion for any of the DNS services... I'm not set on one or the other.
Thanks for any help in advance.
Chad

This just in, Nettica does work as intended, but you need to buy the bulk DNS service in order to enable the AddRecord API call....... wasn't documented clearly but their support was able to point this out.

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Searching in multiple APIs

I come across a problem that I have no clue where should I start in order to solve it.
I have a service that searchs for something very usual, for instance, the current dollar cotation in Brazil. I have multiple trust Apis that can provide me this information, but response time is critical to my service, so I have to choose the faster API, always.
Do anyone knows where do I get started here? Any clue would be great. Thanks !
I would go with parallel asynchronous requests on the different API you think are the best.
Then you only treat the first response.

Siteminder - Request of best references

I am new at using SiteMinder and I would like to know ALL the things that I need to read and understand in order to use it. Please proportionate good references. Thanks.
You should start from the SiteMinder bookshelf.. and proceed from there. One of the good websites that you can look at is ssohelp.com.
You should definitely have some knowledge of web servers and the server platform that you are running SiteMinder on. There aren't a lot of public resources available for Siteminder, so you will need to do some digging through the CA Siteminder book shelf which is fairly thorough but sometimes topics are not arranged correctly.
CoreBlox.com (parent company for ssohelp.com) has some good blog entries that describe some of the not so well documented features of SiteMinder.
I would say that first you must know and understand how HTTP 1.1 works, with a good level of details.
Learning Siteminder is a lot easier if you are knowledgeable enough with HTTP.

Can Amazon actually read my code stored at AWS?

I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but I'm developing a web application, and I suggested using AWS. Nevertheless, my bosses are concerned about Amazon being able to read/steal our code. I don't know why Amazon would want to get my code, but it's not me the one which is worried about that.
I guess there should be some kind of encryption, or at least a legal clause at the AWS user contract where it says that Amazon won't do that or you will be able to sue them. The thing is I haven't been able to find this information so far.
Does anyone know where to find this information? I really want them to let me use AWS, since I think it is a great opportunity to learn about this technology.
Bonus: I know there are similar services, such as Heroku, or Openstack. I will also accept the kind of information resource I'm searching for any other similar services. But unless anyone can point that AWS is not the best option out there, I'd rather stick to AWS.
A) You should assume they can read your code B) you should also assume they don't care about your code.
Edit: Possibly more useful resources w/regards to AWS security
http://aws.amazon.com/articles/1697
http://aws.amazon.com/compliance/

WSO2 WSF/Ruby - anyone using it?

Have been using Savon for my webservice stuff so far, but need to talk to a more "secure" service now, needing WS Addressing and WS Security Extensions.
Have started to extend this fork of Savon to handle it, but then found WSO2 WSF/Ruby - so wondering if anyone has any experience of it, pros/cons etc. That is, is it worth my switching to it? I cant see much out there about it, besides on their own site - their forums seem awfully quiet, which does not bode well.
Currently dev on OSX/Snow Leopard, deploying on CentOS.
Thanks in advance,
Chris
It does not seem so (from the lack of replies...)

DDOS Proxy Provider

I would like to know if anyone has experience with good DDOS Proxy Providers, where it is posible to switch only the NS of the domain and to prevent the attack. Please post any provider, that you have used and you recommend and maybe the price range, because I am collecting now some sorces to find the best one for me. I have found some with price ranges from 299$-699$ for small bussines sites.
Thanks
The only guys you should trust are:
http://www.gigenet.com/ddos-protection.html and http://www.blacklotus.net/protection/elite-protection/
Yeah, I helped someone run a website that was risky. I stopped helping him but what you're looking for is CloudFlare.
Helps keep you up during attacks.
I don't know if you know, but a hacking group known as lulzsecurity had a site up for awhile and there were lots of people that didn't want them up. They were successful with cloud flare.
Hope that helps
Sometimes you can use low cost vds-server with ddos-protection and another dedicated server on other host, like this pack :
VDS : http://www.sim-networks.com/ with plan ESXi-M, it include 100Gbp/s DDOS protection
and other Dedicated Server, for example http://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server
All you need to do is to set up nginx proxy from VDS to Dedicated Server

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