Couple of weeks ago I had some spare time and was going through the pile of hardware at work that needed to be looked through. Were a fairly large Supermicro shop and usually have fixes for every error, but this is one I hadn’t seen before. The system would boot, but got stuck on “System …
Jul 14
I Wish This Ran JUNOS …. Stickers!!
Those who have been using JUNOS just as long as me (or longer) would probably remember for a while Juniper provided stickers that said “I Wish This Ran JUNOS”. I saw them years and years ago and always wanted to get my hands on some. I tried (and hoped) for a very long time I …
Feb 03
Juniper SRX and FTTN VDSL
Over the last few years, Australia has been rolling out a National Broadband Network (NBN for short) (National Bullsh!t Network if you ask me). I recently moved into a new house that was connected to the NBN via Fibre to the Node (FTTN) utilising VDSL technology. I was very excited to know that my Juniper …
May 09
Folding@Home Diskless cluster
For a very long time (about 11 years… wow) since I was in high school, I have been a proud supporter of Folding@Home. It is a great project not only because of the backend research it helps with, but also the technical aspects of their distributed system. But I have always wanted to run it …
Mar 21
Finding domains without NS records in PowerDNS
So, a fun one happened the other day. I needed to remove all the old domains from our nameserver cluster which is open to customers who were no longer pointing there domains to our nameservers. Easy eh? Well, unless you have access to a unrestricted IP capable of doing that many lookups on Ausreg (most …
