Wandering Thoughts archives

2005-12-16:	On the name of USB flash memory drives
2005-12-10:	How not to set up your DNS (part 6)
2005-12-08:	How not to set up your DNS (part 5)
2005-12-06:	How not to set up your DNS (part 4)
2005-12-05:	Dropping packets versus rejecting them in firewall rules
2005-11-28:	How not to set up your DNS (part 3)
2005-11-26:	How not to set up your DNS (part 2) How not to set up your DNS (part 1)
2005-11-25:	Making self-signed SSL certificates with OpenSSL A little sysadmin twitch
2005-11-16:	How not to do DNS for internal domains
2005-11-10:	How doing relative name DNS lookups can shoot you in the foot
2005-11-08:	Fun with DNS: a semi-obscure problem
2005-11-03:	Fun with upgrading our backup server
2005-11-01:	Another tip: Label your hard drives
2005-10-23:	One reason why I like Unix
2005-10-18:	Another aphorism of system administration
2005-10-14:	On the naming of machines
2005-10-13:	Try things out with new machines
2005-10-04:	Keeping changing systems stable
2005-09-15:	Efficiently distributing huge files to lots of workstations
2005-09-12:	Things not do for your network daemon's debugging option
2005-09-01:	On blocking access from large IP ranges
2005-08-24:	Another aphorism of system administration
2005-08-23:	Diagnosing an install problem: a case study in indirect failures
2005-08-22:	On being nibbled to death by moths
2005-08-17:	Parallelizing DNS queries with `split`
2005-08-16:	Things that could happen to your backups
2005-08-15:	Check your backups
2005-08-11:	An aphorism of system administration
2005-07-20:	Please produce useful error messages
2005-07-17:	Skills I use when troubleshooting
2005-07-10:	Tools versus frontends in systems programs
2005-07-04:	The big trick of running lots of systems There's two sorts of large systems
2005-06-29:	Reconsidering network authentication delays
2005-06-28:	Scripting and automation capture knowledge
2005-06-24:	An unchanging system should be stable
2005-06-22:	Future Sysadmin Jobs
2005-06-17:	The problem with CPAN (and other similar systems)

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