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So I recently bought a Pogoplug device, sort of on a whim.  I needed a NAS device, and the fact that the Pogoplug had HFS+ (OS/X filesystem) support made it a clear winner for me.  I’ve been living with mine for about a week now, mostly with single 320GB HFS+ formatted drive.  The $130 device [...]

Me again, yup.  Been a while eh?  Well, I’ve been busy.  Rebuilding a pretty big site essentially from scratch.  Trust me, I have plenty of things to rant about!  This post though I hope to be another informative, less ranting, post about IPv6.
I keep seeing a LOT of well meaning but mis-informed or mis-understood claims [...]

Yup, it’s SysOp here. I know, it’s been a while but I’ve been busy and there have been a lot of changes. On with the post though!
Well I made the leap to Windows 7 after having to buy a new laptop (long story short the desktop is dead). Upon upgrading to Win7 RC1, [...]

Well, the box running dotblag.com, while plenty serviceable, is showing it’s age.  I’ve ordered a pretty large machine (just short of $3000 in total parts) and the bits are on their way, woohoo!  I’ll be setting it up and burning it in over the next month or two.  Once it’s ready dotblag will be moving [...]

Seriously.  You’d think after all these years there’d be better tools than BGP and better tools for working with BGP.  But no.
 
*sigh*
deactivate neighbor 216.x.y.z
commit
 

[ part two of I Cee emM Pee you ]
If a woman ever tells a man size doesn’t matter, she’s certainly not being truthful.  Similarly anyone talking about packet sizes is also spinning a yarn.
Tunnels can and will reduce your MTU.  A lot of consumer NAT devices don’t handle/pass along the ICMP Unreachable codes packet-too-big [...]

An open invitation to D-Link, NetGear, etc.  DISABLE ANYTHING IN YOUR DAMNED ROUTERS THAT MIGHT FILTER ICMP UNREACHABLEs.
We’ve been seeing occasional problems with a tunnel “somewhere” on the internet getting into our path.  It shouldn’t be a problem except that it seems a lot of firewalls still filter ICMP Unreachable’s at the least.
DON’T DO THAT.
 

OK so if you try to pronounce it incorrectly people might think you have a cold.  The good news is though that Server Name Identification AKA TLS-SNI will likely be making it into Debian Lenny.  It’s already in Apache 2.2.x upstream but there’s no release with it quite yet.  
Now we can do SSL Names [...]

Yahoo! Instant Messaging recently (from my perspective) had a nearly 2 hour outage.  This has brought back a problem we’ve had here a number of times in that we  - de facto – standardized on YIM for internal messaging.  I’m now trying to encourage everyone (again) to use IRC on our (sort of private) IRC [...]

We’ve been seeing some reachability issues either inside Tiscali International or Global Crossing.  And the finger pointing has started between them.  AOL/ATDN is also affected.  All of these issues are appearing to European customers.  Global Crossing gets a big BOO for not having any way for me to contact them (an email to their NOC [...]