Explore every episode of the podcast 2.5 Admins
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| 2.5 Admins 212: WHODIS | 12 Sep 2024 | 00:29:04 | |
A surprising way to exploit the WHOIS system, Microsoft will force old versions of Windows 11 to update, and the simple way to set up TP-Link Omada gear.
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News Rogue WHOIS server gives researcher superpowers no one should ever have Windows 11 users still living in the past face forced update, like it or not
Free consulting We were asked about setting up TP-Link Omada gear.
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| 2.5 Admins 211: Open Sourceless | 05 Sep 2024 | 00:30:20 | |
Another example of the downsides of abstraction, whether AI can ever be truly “open source”, and the security benefits and drawbacks of different types of VPN.
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News/discussion Hackers infect ISPs with malware that steals customers’ credentials Debate over “open source AI” term brings new push to formalize definition
Free consulting We were asked about whether VPNs are a security measure.
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| 2.5 Admins 202: Microsoft’s Underwater Again | 04 Jul 2024 | 00:32:46 | |
Why we didn’t mention pocket fluff when we talked about USB-C charging issues, Microsoft abandons its promising underwater data center experiment and didn’t monitor it’s SSL certs, why you should be careful which WordPress plugins and themes you install,an Australian ISP’s tech debt comes due, and remoting into desktop Linux.
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News Microsoft ends Project Natick underwater data center experiment despite success Microsoft declares its underwater data center test was a success Backdoor slipped into multiple WordPress plugins in ongoing supply-chain attack Coding error in forgotten API blamed for massive data breach Microsoft hits snooze again on security certificate renewal
Free Consulting We were asked about remoting into desktop Linux.
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| 2.5 Admins 112: Reuse > Recycle | 13 Oct 2022 | 00:29:22 | |
A drone-delivered exploit system, why companies destroy perfectly good hardware, and pulling backups from a Windows machine.
Plugs iX and Klara – The Open Source Era is Upon Us Your Comprehensive Guide to FreeBSD’s rc
News Why Big Tech shreds millions of storage devices it could reuse
Free Consulting We were asked about pulling backups from a Windows machine.
Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 20 devices.
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| 2.5 Admins 111: The Freezer Trick | 06 Oct 2022 | 00:32:09 | |
SSDs are probably more reliable than spinning hard drives, how much RAM you actually need, Cloudflare alternatives, sudo password security, and more.
Plugs the History of Package Management on FreeBSD
News/discussion The SSD Edition: 2022 Drive Stats Mid-year Review How Much RAM Do You Need in 2022?
Feedback A Practical Guide to (Correctly) Troubleshooting with Traceroute (pdf) How to properly interpret a traceroute or mtr
Free Consulting We were asked about sudo password security.
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| 2.5 Admins 110: Border Gateway Currency | 29 Sep 2022 | 00:31:18 | |
How a BGP hijack facilitated the theft of $235k worth of crypto, why we aren’t too excited about Cloudflare’s new CAPTCHA, and how to configure ZFS on Proxmox.
Plugs Deploying FreeBSD on Oracle Cloud Allan and Wendell chat about ZFS data recovery
News How 3 hours of inaction from Amazon cost cryptocurrency holders $235,000 Announcing Turnstile, a user-friendly, privacy-preserving alternative to CAPTCHA
Free Consulting We were asked about ZFS on Proxmox. Klara Article: Jim on tuning ZFS recordsize
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| 2.5 Admins 109: Selling Technical Debt | 22 Sep 2022 | 00:32:26 | |
Why solving network congestion issues is so difficult, our thoughts on DNS privacy, an unwise use case for 32-bit Linux, and PoE injectors vs switches.
Discussion The Math Proves It—Network Congestion Is Inevitable
Free Consulting We were asked about Power over Ethernet injectors vs PoE switches.
Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 20 devices.
Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/25a and get started with $100 credit.
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| 2.5 Admins 108: dQw4w9WgXcQ | 15 Sep 2022 | 00:32:33 | |
Why modern interfaces suck, the reasons we don’t recommend Cloudflare, and backups for beginners. With guest host Gary from Linux Downtime (and Pidgin).
News/discussion The modern OS desktop is a crime against humanity
Free Consulting We were asked for advice about backups for beginners.
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| 2.5 Admins 107: s/smart//g | 08 Sep 2022 | 00:30:27 | |
Why the W3C is struggling to move to HTTPS by default and follow-up on Certbot, monitoring, and Silverlight. Plus buying enterprise switches.
News/discussion W3C’s planned transition to HTTPS stymied by legacy laggards
Free Consulting We were asked what switches we recommend for enterprise.
Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 20 devices.
Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/25a and get started with $100 credit.
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| 2.5 Admins 106: Wrap Your Deenis | 01 Sep 2022 | 00:31:35 | |
A big change is coming to Windows licensing for VMs, Google changes the rules around VPNs on Android, and solving a DoH problem.
Plugs EuroBSDCon Sept 15-18 Vienna, Austria – Allan will be speaking about making ZFS scale for NVMe
News Microsoft adds virtual core licensing to Windows Server Microsoft EU cloud revisions just so happen to exclude Google, Amazon Google Play rule change disallows ad-blocking VPN apps
Free Consulting We were asked about solving a DNS over HTTPS problem.
Kolide Kolide is a fleet visibility solution for Mac, Windows, and Linux that can help you securely scale your business. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3HB8xUv
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| 2.5 Admins 105: Old Men Yell at Cloud | 25 Aug 2022 | 00:30:29 | |
The pros and cons of using email aliases, an Internet hero scratches his own itch, Jim and Allan yell at the cloud, and choosing a firewall distro.
News/discussion The Security Pros and Cons of Using Email Aliases Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes
Feedback A few people wanted Allan and Jim to answer the same question that was discussed on Linux After Dark 23: In a world of cloud and serverless, is there any point in most people learning the command line?
Free Consulting We were asked about firewall distros.
Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 20 devices.
Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/25a and get started with $100 credit.
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| 2.5 Admins 104: Bathtub Map | 18 Aug 2022 | 00:29:37 | |
Amazon is acquiring lots of home floor plans, Google will let politicians spam its Gmail users, burning in new drives, and ZFS scrub best practises.
Plugs EuroBSDCon Sept 15-18 Vienna, Austria – Allan will be speaking about making ZFS scale for NVMe
News Amazon to acquire Roomba robot vacuum maker iRobot for $1.7 billion Gmail is now officially allowed to spam-proof politicians’ emails
Free Consulting We were asked about commissioning new drives, and ZFS scrubs.
Kolide Kolide is a fleet visibility solution for Mac, Windows, and Linux that can help you securely scale your business. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3HB8xUv
Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/25a and get started with $100 credit.
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| 2.5 Admins 103: AAD the SQL | 11 Aug 2022 | 00:31:10 | |
Good and bad from Meta/Facebook, data centres in London are hogging all the power, separating databases from applications, picking a DB, and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.
Plugs
News It’s time to leave the leap second in the past Meta thinks Facebook may need more “harmful health misinformation” Electronics are built with death dates. Let’s not keep them a secret Too Many Servers Could Mean No New Homes in Parts of the UK
Free Consulting We were asked about separating databases from applications, and how to pick a DB in the first place.
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| 2.5 Admins 201: CVEs everywhere | 27 Jun 2024 | 00:31:51 | |
Vulnerabilities in Asus hardware make us think there should be some regulations about what can be sold as a router, a VPN feature that we hadn’t heard of is removed from Windows, and why we don’t believe that Microsoft will ever take security as seriously as they claim.
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News/discussion High-severity vulnerabilities affect a wide range of Asus router models Dear Asus router user: You’ve been pwned, thanks to easily exploited flaw Microsoft to remove DirectAccess from Windows, recommends switching to Always On VPN Microsoft fixes hack-me-via-Wi-Fi Windows security hole Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI Pluralistic: Microsoft pinky swears that THIS TIME they’ll make security a priority
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| 2.5 Admins 102: Admins After Dark | 04 Aug 2022 | 00:29:26 | |
The consequences of accrued technical debt and how to avoid it, a serious security issue in Confluence, Proxmox’s poor ZFS config, and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.
Plugs
News Linux x86 32-bit Is Vulnerable To Retbleed But Don’t Expect It To Get Fixed Debian skip-skip-cross-up-grade Hardcoded password in Confluence app has been leaked on Twitter Atlassian reveals critical flaws across its product line
Free Consulting We were asked about ZFS snapshots, and Proxmox performance. Jim’s Twitter thread about ZFS config in Proxmox
Kolide Kolide is a fleet visibility solution for Mac, Windows, and Linux that can help you securely scale your business. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3HB8xUv
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| 2.5 Admins 101: Atomic Database | 28 Jul 2022 | 00:29:20 | |
Jim and Allan’s thoughts on GitHub Copilot, why you can’t take the bar exam on modern Intel hardware, and database VM snapshot consistency.
Plugs Contributing to Open Source: Beyond Software Development
News/discussion Why can’t Intel’s 12th-gen CPUs pass the bar exam? Blame the E-cores
Free Consulting We were asked about database VM snapshot consistency.
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| 2.5 Admins 100: 💯 | 21 Jul 2022 | 00:30:25 | |
More on abandoned hardware, central auth, Internet Explorer, Antivirus, monitoring, speed testing, and more.
Plugs Watch Jim and Allan’s webinar: Getting started with bhyve
Things mentioned: Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers
Kolide Kolide is a fleet visibility solution for Mac, Windows, and Linux that can help you securely scale your business. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3HB8xUv
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| 2.5 Admins 99: 00000000 | 14 Jul 2022 | 00:30:56 | |
A PSA about cheap hard drives, a major Internet outage in Canada, Apple’s new Lockdown Mode, and hostnames and DNS.
Plugs From 0 to Bhyve on FreeBSD 13.1
News PSA: buyer beware on “WaterPanther” drives Canadian ISP Rogers falls over for hours, takes out broadband, cable, cellphones Rogers restores service for ‘vast majority’ of customers after massive outage Rogers outage points to need for greater oversight of critical industry Apple expands commitment to protect users from mercenary spyware Why Lockdown mode from Apple is one of the coolest security ideas ever
Free Consulting We were asked about hostnames and DNS.
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| 2.5 Admins 98: Lemonade | 07 Jul 2022 | 00:29:45 | |
Picking the right switch, clustering Raspberry Pis, dynamic DNS, replacing a desktop PC, work-life balance, and more.
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| 2.5 Admins 97: Gotta Go Fast | 30 Jun 2022 | 00:28:31 | |
The best ways to test your Internet speed, more on filesystem caching, monitoring servers at scale, and more.
Plugs Webinar: Open-source Virtualization: Getting Started with Bhyve
Discussion
Feedback
Free Consulting We were asked about monitoring servers at scale.
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| 2.5 Admins 96: Skunky Routers | 23 Jun 2022 | 00:30:40 | |
Internet Explorer is dead, Cisco small business routers that need to be junked, antivirus on Linux servers, and you’ll never guess what Jim and Allan recommend for easily rolling back updates.
Plugs Webinar: Open-source Virtualization: Getting Started with Bhyve
News Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support—what you need to know If you’re using older, vulnerable Cisco small biz routers, throw them out
Free Consulting We were asked about antivirus on Linux servers, and easily rolling back updates. Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tools for Linux best practices
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| 2.5 Admins 95: Opened in 45 Seconds | 16 Jun 2022 | 00:30:33 | |
The finer points of allocating VM resources, Jim is annoyed with the browser situation on Ubuntu desktop, and when you should have passwords on your SSH keys.
Plugs
News/discussion How are we improving Firefox snap performance? Part 1
Free Consulting We were asked about passwords on SSH keys.
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| 2.5 Admins 94: Free IPv4s, Click Here! | 09 Jun 2022 | 00:29:34 | |
Freeing up millions of IPv4 addresses, WSL 2 comes to Windows Server, why cert renewal should be automated, what to do with SMR drives, and more.
Plugs
News Freeing up of hundreds of millions of IPv4 addresses proposed Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 splashes down on Win Server 2022 Massive podcast outage caused by Spotify’s failure to renew security certificate
Free Consulting We were asked about making use of SMR drives, and tuning ZFS
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| 2.5 Admins 93: Bhyve Mind | 02 Jun 2022 | 00:31:56 | |
A Linux user tries out FreeBSD’s Bhyve hypervisor, choosing storage for a VMware ESXi server, and perfect use case for WireGuard.
Discussion Jim has been testing Bhyve
Free Consulting We were asked about connecting home and small business networks, and choosing storage for a VMware ESXi server.
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| 2.5 Admins 200: Even more free consulting | 20 Jun 2024 | 00:32:34 | |
It’s our episode 200 free consulting special. Jim and Allan answer your questions about hard drive availability, USB-C robustness, ZFS performance on a VPS, cold storage with a 2.5″ form factor, how we gained our level of knowledge, disk enclosure issues, and monitoring Windows servers.
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1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/25a
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| 2.5 Admins 92: End to End to End | 26 May 2022 | 00:29:24 | |
End-to-end encryption is under threat again, Broadcom is buying VMware, prison time for an angry DBA, and backing up your photos with encryption.
Plugs Evaluating FreeBSD-CURRENT for Production Use BSDCan 2022 – Online June 1-4th
News “War upon end-to-end encryption”: EU wants Big Tech to scan private messages Broadcom to buy VMware on Thursday for ‘$60 billion’ Angry IT admin wipes employer’s databases, gets 7 years in prison
Free Consulting We were asked about backing up photos with encryption. Stingle is a privacy-focused open source photo backup application Google Photos is so 2020—welcome to the world of self-hosted photo management
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| 2.5 Admins 91: The Deenis | 19 May 2022 | 00:30:24 | |
More on Ubuntu mirrors and DNS, detecting advanced persistent threats, resilient backups, and open source Active Directory alternatives.
Plugs
Feedback Damaged ZFS filesystems can be more or less unrepairable
Free Consulting We were asked about open source Active Directory alternatives.
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| 2.5 Admins 90: 2 Admins | 12 May 2022 | 00:31:07 | |
Another attempt to replace passwords, trying to solve the problem of write-once storage, and the unusual ways we manage our invoices.
Plugs EuroBSDCon CfP: September 15-18, 2022 in Vienna, Austria. Submit by May 25th
News Apple, Google, and Microsoft want to kill the password with “Passkey” standard How Apple, Google, and Microsoft will kill passwords and phishing in one stroke Verbatim Launches Write-Once External SSD With 10-Year Warranty
Free Consulting We were asked about open source invoice software.
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| 2.5 Admins 89: Warm Storage | 05 May 2022 | 00:32:15 | |
How long optical disks last and why cold storage isn’t usually worth it, VM security, more thoughts on crypto nonsense, and more.
Plugs Learning the Fundamentals of the FreeBSD Shell
Feedback Twitter thread about optical media longevity
Free Consulting We were asked about exporting VMs.
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| 2.5 Admins 88: Great Scott | 28 Apr 2022 | 00:30:15 | |
Musk buys Twitter, Ubuntu’s ZFS on root snapshot tool is put on the back burner, and setting up your own apt mirror.
Plugs Build your own NAS, Part 2: Tuning
News Elon Musk strikes deal to buy Twitter for $44bn Tweet from Rik Mills (Ubuntu & Kubuntu developer) Launchpad bug to remove ZFS-on-root from Ubiquity installer zsys removed from the 22.04 installer
Free Consulting We were asked about running setting up your own apt mirror.
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| 2.5 Admins 87: Unplanned Obsolescence | 21 Apr 2022 | 00:30:05 | |
Yet another IoT company abandons its customers, ridiculous “hard drives”, Postrges with containers, and cloud storage that isn’t quite as good as it sounds. With guest host Alex Kretzschmar from the Self-Hosted podcast.
Plugs Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS
News Insteon looks dead—just like its users’ smart homes
Feedback Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn’t want or need
Free Consulting We were asked about ZFS and multipath, and running Postgres with containers.
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| 2.5 Admins 86: Reluctant Sysadmin | 14 Apr 2022 | 00:30:30 | |
The new features in OpenSSH, an embarrassing outage, the ugly side of Apple’s AirTags, and securing SSH keys when using Git. With guest host Dalton Durst from Linux After Dark.
Plugs Improving Replication Security With OpenZFS Delegation
News At last, Atlassian sees an end to its outage – in two weeks Police Records Show Women Are Being Stalked With Apple AirTags Across the Country Apple: What to do if you get an alert that an AirTag is with you
Free Consulting We were asked about securing SSH keys when using Git.
Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/3LpQbqk
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| 2.5 Admins 85: Textbook Scam | 07 Apr 2022 | 00:29:24 | |
CAPTCHAs in phishing attacks, Jim gets angry about Bitcoin propaganda in schools, and packet loss with UDP.
Plugs
Discussion How CAPTCHA puzzles cloak phishing page URLs in emails Jim gets mad about crypto propaganda in schools
Free Consulting We were asked about packet loss with UDP.
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| 2.5 Admins 84: Open Source Sabotage | 31 Mar 2022 | 00:32:23 | |
An open source dev goes rogue, a big single sign-on provider is compromised, self-hosting DNS, and more.
Plugs Should I upgrade to OpenZFS 2.1?
News BIG sabotage: Famous npm package deletes files to protest Ukraine war The Fragile Open Source Ecosystem Isn’t Ready for ‘Protestware’ Okta Hack Exposes A Huge Hole In Tech Giant Security: Their Call Centers Microsoft: Lapsus$ Used Employee Account to Steal Source Code Lapsus$ found a spreadsheet of passwords as they breached Okta, documents show
Free Consulting We were asked about switches, and self-hosting DNS. Allan’s DNS Made easy affiliate link
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| 2.5 Admins 83: Solid State Bathtubs | 24 Mar 2022 | 00:31:49 | |
SSD reliability, a huge potential amplification DDoS attack, and learning how a mail server works.
Plugs Webinar: Improving Recovery Objectives with OpenZFS
News Backblaze report finds SSDs as reliable as HDDs New method that amplifies DDoSes by 4 billion-fold. What could go wrong?
Free Consulting We were asked how to learn the inner workings of a mail server.
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| 2.5 Admins 199: Rest In Parity | 13 Jun 2024 | ||
How to prepare for your loved ones to have the access they need if the worst unexpectedly happens, Joe’s weird issues with wireless access points, and dealing with email accounts that shouldn’t exist.
Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
News/discussion After you die, your Steam games will be stuck in legal limbo EAP225 AC1350 wireless access point
Free Consulting We were asked about dealing with email accounts that shouldn’t exist.
Tailscale Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/25a and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required.
1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/25a
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| 2.5 Admins 82: Oil, Gold, and Firstborn | 17 Mar 2022 | 00:29:24 | |
Our concerns about Google’s latest acquisition, the technical implications of the sanctions on Russia, more on VPNs and filesystem replacements, and using Nagios with Sanoid.
Plugs Controlling Resource Limits with RCTL in FreeBSD
News Google makes second-largest acquisition ever: $5.4 billion for Mandiant Internet backbone Cogent cuts Russia connectivity Internet backbone provider Lumen quits Russia Another Step Towards The Russian Splinternet Russia faces IT crisis with just two months of data storage left Cloudflare, Akamai defend decision to stay in Russia
Free Consulting We were asked about using Nagios with Sanoid.
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| 2.5 Admins 81: Don’t Pay | 10 Mar 2022 | 00:29:33 | |
How not to solve some of the problems with filesystems, why backups are only part of defending your data, and Allan finally tells us the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
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Discussion Backups ‘no longer effective’ for stopping ransomware attacks
Free Consulting We were asked about the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
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| 2.5 Admins 80: 100 Emoji | 03 Mar 2022 | 00:28:56 | |
Browser version numbers might break websites, Samsung’s bad crypto implementation, more on Mazda and Caddy, the FreeBSD init system, and keeping VMs in sync between the two physical hosts.
Plugs UNIX Philosophy: The ideas that made UNIX Improving Recovery Objectives with OpenZFS
News Three major browsers are about to hit version 100. Will websites cope? Samsung shipped ‘100m’ Android phones with flawed encryption
Free Consulting We were asked about the FreeBSD init system, and VMs in sync between the two physical hosts.
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| 2.5 Admins 79: Flex your disks | 24 Feb 2022 | 00:29:32 | |
Maintaining data long-term, Chrome OS comes to generic PCs, and how to detect intrusions and malware on servers and networks.
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News/discussion Most hard drives have a lifespan of three to five years. Have you checked yours lately? Google is bringing Chrome OS to PCs and Macs
Free Consulting We were asked about detecting intrusions or malware on servers and networks.
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| 2.5 Admins 78: MAZDA~1.BMP | 18 Feb 2022 | 00:28:36 | |
Why Arm was never likely to be acquired by Nvidia, an expensive bug in Mazda cars, and how there isn’t always a technical solution to a policy problem.
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News Arm’s $66bn sale to Nvidia collapses Intel’s strategy for outflanking Arm takes shape with bet on RISC-V Radio station snafu in Seattle bricks some Mazda infotainment systems
Free Consulting We were asked about solving a policy problem with a technical solution.
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| 2.5 Admins 77: The Joe Ressington Experience | 10 Feb 2022 | 00:31:21 | |
What the recent Spotify controversy means for open podcasting standards, why young people increasingly don’t understand the concept of a hierarchical filesystem, and our update practices.
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Discussion Joe Rogan Podcast is staying on Spotify says boss Students who grew up with search engines might change STEM education forever
Free Consulting We were asked about our update practices.
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| 2.5 Admins 76: Horses for Courses | 03 Feb 2022 | 00:31:27 | |
The pain of updating Windows, FreeBSD vs Linux, and getting started with ZFS.
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News/discussion Microsoft: Windows needs at least 8 hours online to update reliably Why we’re migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD Counterpoint to “FreeBSD’s network stack is better”
Free Consulting We were asked about getting started with ZFS. What Makes a Good Time to Use OpenZFS Slog and When Should You Avoid It Choosing the right ZFS pool layout OpenZFS: All about the cache vdev or L2ARC ZFS 101—Understanding ZFS storage and performance How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love RAIDZ
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| 2.5 Admins 75: Burning Fiber | 27 Jan 2022 | 00:29:32 | |
Allan has a recent war story for us, Microsoft blocked email from Linode, maximizing performance in a large capacity storage server, and more.
Plugs Cluster Provisioning with Nomad and Pot
Feedback Register article about Microsoft blocking email from Linode
Allan’s recent war story
Free Consulting We were asked about maximizing performance in a large capacity storage server. ZFS RAIDZ stripe width, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love RAIDZ
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| 2.5 Admins 74: Virtual Pointless Network | 20 Jan 2022 | 00:29:28 | |
A potential new European recursive DNS, why VPNs aren’t the silver bullet some people think they are, and how we set up new systems from scratch.
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News/discussion EU wants to build its own DNS infrastructure with built-in filtering capabilities
Free Consulting We were asked about how we set up machines from scratch.
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| 2.5 Admins 73: QR Choad | 13 Jan 2022 | 00:30:15 | |
A novel approach to an old scam, your feedback about web servers and ransomware, and maintaining old databases.
Plugs Packet Scheduling with Dummynet and FreeBSD
News/Discussion
Feedback Jim’s review of the Caddy web server
Free Consulting We were asked about optimising and maintaining an old database.
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| 2.5 Admins 198: SMB Pulse | 06 Jun 2024 | ||
Microsoft is tightening up SMB security in Windows which might break access to your old NAS, a Cogent root-server mysteriously goes out of sync without them spotting it, and protecting hard drives from electromagnetic pulses.
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News Installing Windows 11 24H2 might mean binning that old NAS A root-server at the Internet’s core lost touch with its peers. We still don’t know why
Free Consulting We were asked about protecting hard drives from electromagnetic pulses.
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| 2.5 Admins 72: Email Cartel | 06 Jan 2022 | 00:31:24 | |
Microsoft suffers an embarrassment with Exchange, why it’s so hard to host your own email, and the easiest and safest way to manage your backups.
Plugs BSDCan 2022: June 1-4th. CFP Closes Jan 19th
News/discussion Microsoft releases emergency fix for Exchange year 2022 bug Gloomy sysadmin take on running your own email infrastructure
Free Consulting We were asked about using Syncoid for backups.
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| 2.5 Admins 71: Recover Calmly | 30 Dec 2021 | 00:29:01 | |
Why ransomware isn’t really an infosec problem, how some open source work Allan helped with saved a company millions of dollars, your feedback, and more.
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News/Discussion Kronos hack will likely affect how employers issue paychecks and track hours How We Saved Millions in SSD Costs by Upgrading Our Filesystem
Feedback
Free Consulting We were asked about moving a QNAP NAS out of an office.
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| 2.5 Admins 70: Xmas AMA | 23 Dec 2021 | 00:30:06 | |
It’s our holiday AMA episode. We answered your questions about hobbies, TV resolutions, living in the moment, and the biggest screw-ups we’ve witnessed.
Plugs Panel: FreeBSD Arm64 Flexibility with Ampere
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