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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…