It seems this is a much discussed topic.
Gentoo forced me to solve this.
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Archive for the ‘IT’ Category
Unifi and MongoDB 4.0
Tuesday, April 14th, 2020Connection Tracking Problems
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2015A couple of years back I discovered that when a VoIP server would sporadically lose it’s registration to the upstream VoIP provider, and then in spite of re-sending those registration requests would seem completely unable to register. Sometimes when rebooting the device it would then manage to reregister but not always. (more…)
GlusterFS – migration woes
Sunday, May 17th, 2015So I’ve got a GlusterFS cluster that is a simple 1×2 distribute-replicate with two bricks (one on each server). So I need to migrate this from one data centre to another with little or no downtime (which means move one server, perform heal, and then go and shut the other and move it too).
Unfortunately I got stuck in the middle with the moved server not wanting to talk with it’s peer again. As it turns out changing the IPs is … hard. Fortunately I used Private (RFC1819) IP addresses in the original setup on a dedicated cable between the two servers.
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Denial of Service
Thursday, April 2nd, 2015Denial of Service attacks is a very vague term for a group of attacks that causes a service to be denied to legitimate users. Obviously when you host your website publicly you want it to be available – so having it taken down by some hacker is highly annoying. And I’m not referring to only websites, there are many other types of applications and services out there that can be “taken down”, or to which “service can be denied”.
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