Category Archives: virtualization

Getting outside

Posted on November 20, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

I’m trenching a ditch. I’m hoping to run a few 25-pair telco cables, some fiber, a few coax cables, 240v power, 120v power, natural gas and perhaps a few cat-6 cables through it. Assuming the authorities approve, of course. .

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Linus on Instantiation and Armadaification

Posted on August 9, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

I feel a sense of pride when I think that I was involved in the development and maintenance of what was probably the first piece of software accepted into Debian which then had and still has direct up-stream support from … Continue reading →

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STUN server up

Posted on August 6, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

cjac@foxtrot:/usr/src/svn/debian/stun/stun-0.96.dfsg$ dig +short _stun._udp.colliertech.org SRV 10 0 3478 stun.colliertech.org. cjac@foxtrot:/usr/src/svn/debian/stun/stun-0.96.dfsg$ ./client stun.colliertech.org STUN client version 0.96 Primary: Dependent Mapping, preserves ports, no hairpin Return value is 0×000019 Also of note, the web server now redirects requests for the blog on … Continue reading →

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The blog was down yesterday

Posted on July 26, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

The brief outage was due to a scheduled move of the servers to a separate rack and subnet dedicated to our work with the Center for Information Assurance & Cybersecurity (ciac) at the University of Washington Bothell (uwb), and a11y.com … Continue reading →

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You might on occasion confuse us with professionals

Posted on July 23, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

If we keep this up, you might.

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New whiteboarding

Posted on July 13, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

I should also sketch out the physical and virtual circuits at and between each PoP as well as the vast array of Virtual Machines provisioned on the hypervisors.

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oops

Posted on June 25, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

the hypervisor wasn’t configured to enslave the correct physical interface to the correct bridge on boot. My bad. Sorry for the outage. Again.

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Service Interruption

Posted on June 16, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

—–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– Hash: SHA256 ███████████ █████, During the month of June, we experienced a service interruption which has caused our mutual customer, ███████████ ███████ ███ School, an inability to initiate outgoing calls. CenturyLink has also caused the interruption … Continue reading →

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pki via IPv4 is back online

Posted on June 12, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

It turns out I didn’t have IP forwarding turned on in my shorewall config and so DNAT wasn’t working. Oops. You should be able to get to the HKP, ntp, RADIUS and kerberos servers now via IPv4. IPv6 was working … Continue reading →

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Spinning up a telco with Asterisk

Posted on June 10, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

Back in 2010 our family moved to an island in an archipelago in the very top left of the US’s continental 48. Before moving, we did some research regarding high speed network access. There are a number of ISPs in … Continue reading →

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