MySQL and DNS

Customer complaining about website performance. Load balanced two tier app with IIS on the front end and MySQL on the back end. We support the infrastructure in this particular environment, not the OS or the apps, but we help where we can.

Long story cut short - if you're going to use MySQL, make sure you can resolve the client IPs using DNS.

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"Secure" Passwords

Why oh why do sites requiring "secure" passwords prevent me from using the non-alphanumeric characters I want to use?!? www.householdcharge.ie is the latest one I've come across.

Sigh.

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