ouch did you still run well before the herniated disc? I'm trying to get my 1.5 mile time down to 10 mins (right now it is 12:30) Yep, I did pretty well Our PT test is actually 1.5 mile we had to do it in 12:50, which seems like a lot of time to me I played baseball in high school, so when I joined the CG, 12:50 was easy yeah, that seems like a lot I did it in 11:00 nice the swimming part is a bitch it used to be 150 yards, but we had to do 500 hah water and me don't mix really cold water makes me unable to breath well that's why the Coast Guard is here for you :D LOL :) yeah they kept the pool water in basic training at a steady 65 it was freezing i could do 65 i think; once i was in catalina water at like 50; well F*CK that couldn't breath yeah 50 is bad the last thing you want is hypothermia we have these "mustang" suits for that purpose they float, keep us dry, and keep us warm using our body heat that was the only fun part about basic.. learning how to use those hmm..brb ah cool hey up_the_irons hey RandalSchwartz so I got all my IPs on both boxes working now including my v6's sweet just realized that's 80 bits worth of personal addresses more like 16 bits worth of subnets indeed. and with comcast starting to deliver v6 to homes... in IPv6, "number of IPs" is actually not much of a topic I can use those b/c there are so many; instead, we focus on how many subnets we have /64 is your standard single subnet i'm glad to see comcast getting on the ball wonder if they'll give you a /56 or /48 to your home what is mzima.net? one of my transits ok I notice my traceroutes seem to be different at different times. :) just whatever's closest, right? "closest", yeah anyway, I've got the formula down for how to turn your info into freebsd rc.conf files it'll tend to fluctuate, just the nature of the 'net I wonder if you could have a wiki so I can share what I figure out not essential... just a thought mmm.. all i got in the knowledge base random thoughts are like that. :P a wiki is a good thought though in fact, you could modify your template for the box page to show configs so I could just copy-paste them if you knew I was freebsd, that is oh that's true yeah, the portal knows i have an old article: http://support.arpnetworks.com/faqs/main/how-to-configure-ipv6-on-freebsd defaultrouter=174.136.96.177 ipv4_addrs_em0=174.136.96.178/30 gateway_enable=YES ipv6_enable=YES ipv6_gateway_enable=YES oops ipv6_defaultrouter=2607:f2f8:1640::1 ipv6_ifconfig_em0=2607:f2f8:1640::/48 like that if you published that based on the numbers, I coudl just copy/paste it you need that when you're building the box stock anyway or how do you image it? those are generated automatically upon provisioning rc.conf, etc... oh cool maybe if I had just captured mine before wiping the disk... :) haha it gets a little more complicated when a customer has more than 1 vps i'm looking to separate the ip block info from the vps service item I've talked with a lot of people about the idea of offsite ZFS snapshot backup service you really need to look into that it'd a be service almost nobody else is offering b/c multiple VMs per customer is becoming a pain yeah, i like that idea hey - how do you handle someone wanting to go from a 20GB to a 40GB drive? do you mount a 40GB drive in addition for a bit? no lvextend, fdisk -BI, disklabel, growfs in a NUTSHELL does zfs handle that? oh i have no idea how to do it on zfs most upgrades are ufs2 yeah, just wondering the ones that are not, are ext3 might need to look into that not for me, but neil might eventually get rid of $90/month to amazon and send it your way instead ec2? yeah what kinda stuff do u get for $90 on ec2? just your basic dual CPU virtual box running linux, or..? opensolaris or linux or windows not freebsd ah i c funny they support opensolaris first before freebsd I'm going to mirror his stuff to his box here Sun did it ah Sun made sure they were a player on EC2 haha the fbsd people are trying to get their stuff together but not yet yeah so neil is looking for a ZFS based solution? I'm gonna mirror all of his website from EC2 to here (off-site backup, that is) and then fire it up and show him it's just as good so he can get rid of EC2 sweet but his 20G is likely going to be a bit tight after a while he has some media files to serve hence the question ah and you put on ZFS for him? his box is already live with email and DNS yeah ok interesting if you could just add a second 20G to the provision, I can mount it and spread data across both zpool works that way not sure what that looks like outside th ebox i mean, i think it should be straight forward... if ZFS supports growing itself, then it is not an issue; extending the backing device (e.g. "making the 'physical' hard drive bigger") is trivial yeah, I'll look into that might require a few zraid swaps yeah, alternatively, i could easily give you a 2nd disk 20G zraid with 40G will silver 20G on both in fact that is the way i did upgrades before i was savvy with growfs and e2resize then you "fail" the 20G and replace it with a 40G and it silvers both with the data then you "fail" the second 40G nice so that's one way to grow a disk if you have a bit of time the nice thing is you can do that "live" if you were to google for your remote zfs backup solution, what terms would you search for? yeah, the "liveness" of it is hot traditional method requires downtime zfs is all about the uptime :) zfs offsite backup and there's already someone claiming to be "first" roger damn! haha ... http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/dattos-z-series-worlds-first-on-off-site-backup-solution-to/ two years ago! smugmug uses ZFS I should get you in contact with someone there so you can talk to them about ZFS best practices, and maybe they can help you figure out how this is best done anyway - I think there's a business in there and if you can figure out how to solve the last piece of redundancy yeah i think you're right you'll be one of the few (if not the first) to have it all http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/storage_utils.html sun has something to say about it you already have redundant disk, power, nets, etc. you just need redundant geography and I know many corps would pay nicely for htat at multiple levels data somewhere else data somewhere else, ready to become hot after DNS redundant geography isn't too hard; just gotta ship a router and some boxes somewhere data somewhere else, ready to become hot on HA failover and with ZFS snapshot shipping, minimum bytes to ship the 2nd site would have different IP range, so it'd be a DNS fail-over solution; with some experimentation and cost, it may be possible to share IP space well - as I said, you could price differnet solutions differently right for me, for example, if I just had a way to get my data again, even if it required provisioning a new box, I'd be happy but for some, having a second spare box ready to fire up would be better right that is, for me, you wouldn't have to allocate enough CPU beyond receiving the ZFS data but for the second tier, you have to allocate enough cpu/memory/power for a box to go live at any moment that's why I think you could have a nice variety of products for every off-site need at different price points I'm suggesting this to you because it's clear to me you already understand and live and breathe redundancy. :) Yes :) I think about redundancy every day, it is a sickness really ;) well - you're the guy I want on my side then. :) by the way, I landed a nice 3-month contract in LA starting 3/15 so I'll be down your way quite a bit do you know oversee.net ? nice no, i'm not familiar with them basically, about 80% of the search-spam landing pages... all done with a few dozen linux boxes to serve something like a million domains nice 44th floor of the building just northwest of the downtown library some odd lawfirm name diagonal from mccormick and schmicks 4th and flower maybe something like that 515 S Flower sounds familiar so anyway, I'll be nearby soon for probably halftime onsite, halftime off I'd like to meet you some day. :) sure, let's get some lunch :) and you'll be real close to the data center, i can show you around nice the center that's also the "cop station" in southland :) yup, exactly :) ok - well, I think it's time for me to sleep... nice chatting with you again. RandalSchwartz: nice chattin' ! g'night today when i ran freebsd-update on 7.2 is says that 7.2 is EOL soon... what do peope run? RELENG_7 or RELENG_8? I use 8.0 8 on my vps, 7 on my own colo box (need to update it!) up_the_irons: openbgpd was written and developed to address the deficencies of quagga (and its predecessor) up_the_irons: you'll find that pps performance is indicative of the hardware/os not the routing software up_the_irons: openbgpd specifically has good bgp performance, not taking minutes to recalculate routes if anything changes; it is a tangent but it is noteworthy openbgpd takes 32mb for a full routing table, cisco takes 64mb up_the_irons: I've never seen what you describe on MegaRAID it must be an older system or something, always clearly raid0/raid1/raid5/raid10/etc on my systems: eclipse$ sudo bioctl ami0 Volume Status Size Device ami0 0 Online 8986296320 sd0 RAID0 0 Online 9106882560 0:15.0 noencl ami0 1 Online 440087347200 sd1 RAID5 0 Online 146811125760 1:3.0 ses0 1 Online 146811125760 1:8.0 ses0 2 Online 146811125760 1:4.0 ses0 3 Online 146811125760 1:5.0 ses0 ami0 2 Hot spare 146815733248 1:2.0 ses0 ziyourenxiang: 7.2 is EOL soon because 7.3 will be out Jesus, I should just pf deny everything from apnic. ok, so i'll be able to freebsd-update to that then Yep. 7.3 just isn't out quite yet. hm hm anyone in the channel have sales experience? I sell myself all the time what's your question? I'm a geek with no inclination to sales. I started a software consulting company, and got some projects in 2004-2005 since then, things have been slow I'm trying to figure out how to sell my services. I have a website, and have good SEO rankings figure out what you're good at, and where people are who might want that then figure out what they read, look at, think about and get into those yeah, i have been relying on writing articles and other things to 'attract' people, but i'm thinking I'll have to start cold calling old calling sucks in general, easier to go hang out where they are conferences, watering holes shmget, im in the same boat as you i dont code and shit but i do do well for myself, i just am not a salesman, it sucks ass brb lazy once in awhile someone sees my resume and gets in touch, but not much