As now the most important Server is no longer in my flat, i needed to setup a monitoring service.
Nagios is the first choice. Unfortunately the docu lacks examples and an introduction for beginners. With special help from remko, who let me sneak at his config, and this tutorial i am now monitoring 25 services on my LAN and on my Server.
I really like it, when everything is green.
Author: arved
New URL
Congratulations, you have found the new URL of this Blog.
With this move you will get:
- More Bandwith, the blog is no longer hosted on my ADSL line.
- New MovableType version, with new page Layout. Sixapart did a good job by maintaining backward compatibility with the old version, all my hacks and plugins still work.
If you are missing something, please report.
The only thing missing so far, i have not read through all the old entries and moved the images to the new server, so images of old entries are still loaded from my ADSL line.
New Webserver online
I finally got my own 1337 r00t Server. After a hint from Daniel Seuffert, that Elkhouse offers cheap FreeBSD root servers, i decided to get one, so that I will be able to use more of my ADSL bandwith for myself.
I will migrate content on this site step by step to Rollo, so expect some disruptions :-).
While doing the migration i decided to implement several improvements. First the apache runs now in a jail, second I have upgraded to php5 and third i intend to evaluate MT3.
The only thing that hasn’t been solved to my satisfaction yet is rollo’s reverse lookup, because I lack clue for configuring BIND in combination with CIDR (but “DNS & BIND” is on its way to me) and i have not yet moved one of my domains to Elkhouse.
Mac OS PDF printing broken
I am currently downloading Acrobat reader. Recently the native MacOS PDF Preview fails to print a lot of PDFs and only prints:
ERROR: undefinedresult OFFENDING COMMAND: div STACK: --dict--,Ls, 116, 0.0, 0.
Can you say Bloat?
Loneliness….
Few days ago i spent 7.99 EUR on a Portishead CD.
The money was well spent, i have been listening to my favorite tracks “Numb” and “Roads” for several hours now…
last.fm Player
You have probably noticed, that last.fm updated their website. Now a special player is required. Unfortunately it took some time until Mac binaries where uploaded, so i could not listen to last.fm for a few days at work or university.
But since yesterday I’m again fully last.fm enabled.
Special thanks to lofi, who posted a FreeBSD amd64 package to his last.fm Journal
Now I can spend this rainy day listening to music.
EU and Morocco
Yesterday a car from Agadir, Morocco was parking in our street. What confused me, on the car plate next to the moroccian flag was the EU flag.
Did I miss something? Since when is Morocco part of the EU? Or do they have special plates for driving in the EU?
Windows & IPv6
Today I installed IPv6 for the first time on the Windows XP of my girlfriends laptop.
I have to admit that it was easier than on my iBook, where all browsers prefer IPv4 over IPv6.
Here is an example output of “tracert6”
C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\arved>tracert6 www.kame.net Routenverfolgung zu www.kame.net [2001:200:0:8002:203:47ff:fea5:3085] von 2001:5c0:89f0:2:cd4a:75f6:28fa:e92b �ber eine maximale Anzahl von 30 Hops: 1 6 MSek 6 MSek 5 MSek defgw6-3.arved.priv.at [2001:5c0:89f0:2::] 2 4 MSek 3 MSek 6 MSek defgw6-1.arved.priv.at [2001:5c0:89f0::1] 3 459 MSek 469 MSek 476 MSek 2001:5c0:8fff:fffe::267a 4 549 MSek 552 MSek 459 MSek ipv6.hexago.com [2001:5c0:0:2::18] 5 555 MSek 501 MSek * sl-bb1v6-nyc-t-23.sprintv6.net [3ffe:2900:2001:5::1] 6 532 MSek 545 MSek 664 MSek sl-bb1v6-rly-t-1003.sprintv6.net [2001:440:1239:100a::2] 7 746 MSek 740 MSek 642 MSek 3ffe:2900:b:e::2 8 712 MSek 708 MSek 700 MSek plt001ix06.IIJ.Net [2001:240:bb62:8000::4001] 9 731 MSek 831 MSek 741 MSek otm6-bb1.IIJ.Net [2001:240:bb20:f001::2] 10 752 MSek 773 MSek 885 MSek tky001ix06.IIJ.Net [2001:240:100:1::30] 11 760 MSek 775 MSek 685 MSek hitachi1.otemachi.wide.ad.jp [2001:200:0:1800::9c4:2] 12 719 MSek 742 MSek 759 MSek pc3.yagami.wide.ad.jp [2001:200:0:1c04::1000:2000] 13 774 MSek 820 MSek 731 MSek gr2000.k2.wide.ad.jp [2001:200:0:4819::2000:1] 14 775 MSek 778 MSek 782 MSek orange.kame.net [2001:200:0:8002:203:47ff:fea5:3085]
awake at 3.30am
While waiting for mchammer recompiling all his ports after the shared library bump, i finally took the courage to talk to an old friend of mine on ICQ, whom i have not talked to for more than three years.
We chatted for nearly an hour, and now i am fully awake without consuming any caffeine.
New Book on IPSec
There are not many IT books i read front to back, usually i just use them as Reference Manuals, or read the interesting chapters.
I bought “Doraswamy/Harkins – IPSec”, which gives a very good Overview over the topic. The only aspect that missed out was the use of PKI with IPSec.
Unfortunately most books about IPSec are from around 2001, when VPN where the hot topic.
So I am now looking over a good overview over recent developments regarding PKI, X509v3, CMP etc.