Category Archives: network saturation

For the DMZ

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The blog was down yesterday

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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software bridge loops suck, too

I didn’t realize that I had two of my machines attached to openvpn from the same l2 segment. It caused a network outage for about 24 hours. Sorry for the downtime folks. I believe that if I turn on stp … Continue reading

Posted in colliertech, debian, F5, Free Software, Hardware, LD1, LD11, LD36, LD40, legislative districts, network saturation, Networking, performance, perl, politics, proliant, spanning tree | 2 Comments

blog optimizations

Thanks to some recommendations from Jeremy, Pierre and Jeff, this blog should be running a lot less slowly. I’ve installed memcached, set up wordpress plugins, tuned apache MPM parameters, tweaked iptables and tc rules and beaten on the blog with … Continue reading

Posted in blog, C.J. Insider, colliertech, customer experience, debian, Free Software, network saturation, Networking, performance, rate limiting, Software, traffic shaping | 9 Comments

Back online…

Sorry for the outage, folks. We’re back up now. This time with a firewall. Ain’t that fun? Someone broke in to the machine in February and was using the un-throttled bandwidth to spam the world. I’ve added a throttle and … Continue reading

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Why can’t I communicate on cell phones with static?

I was thinking… When there’s echo on the line or when I can hear breathing, I respond with silence and a delay to see whether the line is clean. This reminds me of [[CSMA/CD]]. Ha. My communication system is like … Continue reading

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DNS changes

I’m working on the family’s servers over vacation. I’m moving a bunch of the bandwidth-consuming bits off of the server on the T1. One of the services I’m moving to its own VM is bind9. I figure it should live … Continue reading

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Tagged Message Delivery Agent

http://tmda.net/ challenge / response layer

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spamassassin tls plugin

Anybody got a tls plugin for spamassassin? Something that will check to see whether incoming mail is signed by a certificate known to and trusted by spamd?

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Network Neutrality in a nutshell

Network Neutrality is a term used to encompas the need for a balanced playing field on the Internet. Proponents for neutrality claim that having a tiered infrastructure will create a hierarchy of “haves” and “have nots.” The perceived problems would … Continue reading

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