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The pain of updating Windows, FreeBSD vs Linux, and getting started with ZFS.

 

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FreeBSD Periodic Scripts

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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”

 

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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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Allan has a recent war story for us, Microsoft blocked email from Linode, maximizing performance in a large capacity storage server, and more.

 

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Cluster Provisioning with Nomad and Pot

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Register article about Microsoft blocking email from Linode

 

Allan’s recent war story

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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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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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The Birth of Unix

 

News/discussion

EU wants to build its own DNS infrastructure with built-in filtering capabilities

 

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We were asked about how we set up machines from scratch.

 

 

 

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A novel approach to an old scam, your feedback about web servers and ransomware, and maintaining old databases.

 

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Packet Scheduling with Dummynet and FreeBSD

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Pay to park scam

 

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Jim’s review of the Caddy web server

 

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We were asked about optimising and maintaining an old database.

 

 

 

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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.

 

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BSDCan 2022: June 1-4th. CFP Closes Jan 19th

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News/discussion

Microsoft releases emergency fix for Exchange year 2022 bug

Gloomy sysadmin take on running your own email infrastructure

 

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We were asked about using Syncoid for backups.

 

 

 

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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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OpenZFS: Native Encryption

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Kronos hack will likely affect how employers issue paychecks and track hours

How We Saved Millions in SSD Costs by Upgrading Our Filesystem

 

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SpinRite

 

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We were asked about moving a QNAP NAS out of an office.

 

 

 

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A huge vulnerability in a Java logging library, ZFS on AWS disappoints, the fastest web servers for static sites, the importance of certs, and more.

 

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Using FreeBSD’s pkg audit to investigate known security issues

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Log4Shell: RCE 0-day exploit found in log4j 2, a popular Java logging package

The Internet’s biggest players are all affected by critical Log4Shell 0-day

Canada Revenue Agency and other government departments take some services offline due to security vulnerability

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS

 

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We were asked about web servers for static sites, VLANS and interfaces, and certifications.

 

 

 

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A mystery in the Tor network, whether blockchain has any real-world value, configuring passwords with Ansible, and burning in new disks. With guest host Gary Williams from Linux After Dark.

 

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Allan was on Late Night Linux Extra talking about FreeBSD.

BSDCan 2022 – Call for papers

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News

It’s long past time for cost-benefit analysis on blockchain

Funny tweet

A mysterious threat actor is running hundreds of malicious Tor relays

 

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An insight into the massive scale of Google’s infrastructure, Allan and Jim refuse to accept that crypto now means cryptocurrency (and confuse Latin and Greek), multi-factor auth and WireGuard, and testing network quality.

 

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Demystifying OpenZFS 2.0

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Google’s server life extension delivers $1.7bn revenue boost in nine months

Google to make its own custom server chips as well

Seagate demos hard disk drive with an NVMe interface

Cryptographers are not happy with how you’re using the word ‘crypto’

 

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We were asked about using WireGuard with multi-factor authentication, and testing network quality.

netburn

FreeBSD Network Troubleshooting: Understanding Network Performance

RIPE Atlas