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This post will show up in both the FreeBSD section as well as the Network one. It’s sort of a combination of the two. I’ve been detailing my server conversions from Linux to FreeBSD on this blog, but I held off on the final device, and that’s the router. It turned out to be a hell of a challenge…
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If you’ve been following my two sub-threads on this blog regarding FreeBSD jails and fighting spam, you know the status: I have a FreeBSD server called joker that has multiple jails on it. One jail is riddler, and it handles all outbound SMTP connections. But not inbound. Further, you know that I have a reasonably complex anti-spam system set…
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In my Killing Spam(mers) entry, I discussed getting both SpamAssassin and Neal Horman’s spamilter installed and working on joker. Doing so made a significant impact on the amount of spam I was seeing. However, they were working independently of one another, and what I really wanted was some sort of feedback loop. Should a message get through spamilter and be…
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In the last entry, I explained how I decided to remove the Linux hypervisor from my network and replace it with a beefy FreeBSD server named joker. Instead of all of the VMs running on the former KVM server, I instead created a collection of FreeBSD jails. This post will serve to document what I did to get them…
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Before the Overhaul… As mentioned previously, most of the services that I run out of my house have been via virtual machines. For a long while, I was using VMWare’s ESXi, but I got tired of its stupid Windows admin tool, and also tired of its restrictions on what hardware it would run on. I had a Mac Pro…
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Preface This write-up will consist of technical concepts, architecture ideas, and lots of opinion. All of which are based on 20 years of building big networks in datacenters. I’ve heard it all, seen it all, and have probably already built it. Some of the opinions in this article may come across as a bit cruel. They’ve been forged over…
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I’m writing this ex post facto, so me referring to things like, “I did this” actually happened months ago. I’m just now recounting it. Note that the assumption with this document is sendmail. You’re running sendmail as your MTA, right? No? Well go back to the beginning and try again. So.. you’re running sendmail as your MTA, right? No?…
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In the last entry, I went through the thought processes and steps behind bringing up a new storage server called bane using FreeBSD (10.1) as the OS. The intent with this post is to explore the filesystem exports. Bear in mind that bane is doing a few other things like acting as a MySQL server, a local GIT server,…
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This little server adventure was completed in February of 2015, but I’m recounting it in November. Bear that in mind while reading it. QNAP NFS/Samba/AFS Server As mentioned in a previous post, my main login server is joker which has been a VM on VMWare and then KVM for quite a few years. I’ve kept my important files such…
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I posted this on another discussion forum back in January of this year and decided to cut and paste most of it here. Note that the, “I did this,” and, “I did that,” sort of things happened back in December of 2014, not recently. Preface I’ve been a happy UNIX user since ’91, which also corresponds to my Freshman…