Last night i had a pleasure of seeing nagios scream about one of my mail servers load. When i ssh’ed to the box the load was at 104, ouch. A quick tail -f /var/log/messages showed me the problem – i’m being DDoS’ed. My screen couldn’t handle all that output – ~500 connections /s, which makes [...]
A few days ago freebsd.lt finally expired and i had a chance of ordering this domain! Hooray!!!! I don’t really know what i will do with it, but the last owner didn’t do anything at all Currently, i just redirected it to http://www.lt.freebsd.org – Lithuanian FreeBSD mirror which our company hosts. In the future, if [...]
I hate when people use #!/bin/bash in their shell scripts! Today, at omnitel.unix – a lithuanian newsgroup, there was a question “massive nslookups”. A guy said that he has a text file with IP addresses one per line, and asked how to lookup them all. A few hours later, a guy who’s nickname is ‘bash’ [...]
Today I have finished reading The Book of Postfix – State-of-the-Art Message Transport by Ralf Hildebrandt and Patric Koetter. It took me almost a month to read it, the book has 496 pages, and i was reading it while going to work and back home. I could say that i am more than average postfix [...]
Doh, it’s only the third day i use WordPress and i’ve already filled a bug report. Today, i created a user ‘alex’ so that i could post with this user, and not ‘admin’ to the blog. And i’ve generated a password and tried to change to it – and boom, error: ERROR: Passwords may not [...]
A few weeks ago i have found a website which lists expired .lt domains – but, i have found out that it is filtered and semi-automatic, so i don’t like it. And i thought – hey, i wonder if i can make a site like that, and automatic – so i tried to do it. [...]
Ah, at last, on Wednesday i’ve received two books. I’ve helped out Kyle Keith with his postfix and amavisd problem and he sent me those books as a gift. Brand new books from amazon! The Book of PF Absolute FreeBSD Thanks again Kyle!!!