Since ages I wanted have replaced this freaking backup solution of our Network Equipment based on some hacky shell scripts and expect [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect] uploading the configs on a TFTP [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivial_File_Transfer_Protocol] server. Years ago I stumbled upon RANCID…
Today early in the morning my monitoring system notified me about unusual high outgoing traffic on my hosting platform. I traced the problem down the webserver which is also hosting this abandoned website. Looking into this with iptraf [http://iptraf.seul.org/] revealed that this traffic is coming only from…
Since 2 weeks I'm faced with some problems at a Xen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen] hosting environment based on Debian [http://www.debian.org] wheezy [http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/]. The issue is, that one specific domU is regularly failing network. The investigations showed, that…
A try with OpenWRT [http://openwrt.org] 8.09 in April to setup a WDS [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Distribution_System] with additional AP functionality and encryption, like described in the documentation [http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/docs/openwrt.html#x1-210001.2.2], failed [https://dev.openwrt.org/…
Actual I'm involved into a project which maybe of interest for you if you like opera particular when you are a Richard Wagner [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wagner] enthusiast. Since long time, the waiting period for obtaining tickets increases a lot. At the moment I think…
Last week I noticed, that Kabel Deutschland [http://www.kabeldeutschland.de/], a cable provider in Germany, returns for any non existing hosts "204.9.89.60". It seems, thats it is rolled out since last fall. Even for DNSSEC [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNSSEC] enabled infrastructure it…
After shutdown of the old L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET the IP address formerly associated with it, the IP continued to answer requests. More informations can be found at the ICANN Blog [http://blog.icann.org/?p=309] UPDATE: Before bothering around, if you read the ICANN Blog [http://blog.icann.org/…
Searching for an alternative for our old Cisco Border Router we are evaluating some software routing suites on "normal" server hardware. First we tried Vyatta [http://www.vyatta.com/products/index.php], but the routing software frequently crashed completely. Maybe this is fixed with VC4 Alpha 1, but…