looks like my marketing work is paying off again
RandalSchwartz: did you just post to freebsd-questions?
yeah
nice
I got another twitter follower out of it ;)
I see
Just read the thread.  Looks like it would be helpful if I could ship a server out to the EU somewhere.
not sure why people care where the server is
unless it's about jurisdiction for subpoenas
not like network times matter all that much any more
although I'm comparing most times to what I get on a cruise ship :)
RandalSchwartz:  EU customers may see a noticeable delay when typing in the shell over SSH
so if one does a lot of that, it gets annoying fast, and they want either an EU server or US-East-Coast server
sure
again even ssh at 1200 ms delay, I've learned to type carefully
up_the_irons: My suggestion:  find a data center in london, paris, or some place like that.  Then,  send me and my fiancee out to rack it and such around march.   We'll mix honeymoon + business :P
jpalmer: LOL
hey,  can't blame a guy for trying, right?
:)
looks like someone said arp is twice the goodies for the price in that thread
nice
greetings
whoa cool
anyone know how i can go about setting up rDNS for my ip6 network? the soa is ns1.arpnetworks.com.
and now, they experience the next hurdle... sold out until jan 8. :)
yep
bharatak - email to support@
but be sure you have your delegation set up right already
up_the_irons - isn't there a wiki page on that already?
uh cool - but how?
i know the aaaa is right
bharatak - ever set up named masters before?
presuming you're using bind?
yes, but not using bind right now
you'll need to be
and you'll probably want to select a secondary as well
or you can use your own DNS server software
bind is what I'm using
i use a 3rd party for my dns, zoneedit - i already setup the in6.arpa but its not the soa
ahh - then you just need a delegation
email support@
generally fixed in 24-48 hours
RandalSchwartz: don't think there is a wiki page for rdns delegations, just ipv6 setup w/ routing over link-local
and tell them my ns servers?
yeah
cool, thanks
they'll set up the NS subdomain
yeah - I did that and completed it
but - hey i'm ready for ip4 to die
I moved my secondary to he.net to fix most of it
so now my secondary for my forward and reverse are both on he.net
i may do that as well, but i have one host on a dynamic address
and you run the primary?
... http://ipv6.he.net/certification/scoresheet.php?pass_name=merlyn
yes - I run the primary locally
i'm just running out of memory - and i'm too cheap to buy more
I decided to stop at 1024
to get 1500, you just have to write a script and let it run for a year
I figured that was stupid
but did you get the t-shirt?
yeah!
hell yeah
thats all that counts then
indeed, what geeks will do for "free" clothing
the fun part was incoming mail on ipv6
my first v6 mail, I did a happy dance :)
i've yet to see that
it's one of the higher levels
ah- - i got one email from he.net
my first v6 mail was followed immediately by my first v6 spam
spammers.  pure evil.
almost as evil as svn
damn, i think i have to wait for zoneedit to assign me to a ns
git it
I like Linus on that.  "You can't say SVN is a better CVS, because CVS sucks so much it's impossible to improve" :)
pretty simple if you're running freebsd
echo named_enable=YES >>/etc/rc.conf
and edit /etc/namedb/named.conf to have your master file
... zone "0.8.0.3.8.f.2.f.7.0.6.2.ip6.arpa" {
...         type master;
...         file "master/2607:f2f8:3080";
... };
openbsd here, fairly similar
though the commands do bark if you make a typo
yeah, not as fun though
I was on openbsd for 5 years
switched to freebsd last year
won't ever go back
why
freebsd = zfs + pf + huge port collection
the only thing i'd like is zfs
and far easier sysadm, I think
but i'd miss the simplicity/purity
mostly because of rc.d setup
i ran freebsd many moons ago
instead of constantly hacking rc.local
ah - just write a perl script or two ~;)
Perl? what's that?
thats going to change soon - rc.d is coming
is it like ruby?
must be..
i'll quote you on that
heh
I'll deny it all.
i'm sad about opensolaris though
yeah
oracle - killing everything they bought in sun
simon phipps and I have had long conversations about that
he can't say much, since he's in the middle
but off the record, it's interesting
i just hope the illumos guys can pull it off, but from what i can see it's near impossible
yeah, not betting on that pony
if they want to stay binary compatible, api compatible etc
but i have to say, zfs is damn cool
esp with zones and the virtual networking stuff
running zfs as / here, on 4 boxes
RandalSchwartz: Also OpenBSD 64-bit doesn't get along with ESXi at all.
does freebsd have the concept of boot filesystems like opensolaris? thats a killer feature
not sure what that means
you *can* set a setting in the stage2(?) boot to pick which zfs filesystem to boot from
bootadm
freebsd doesn't use grub thoough
it has its own stage0, 1, 2 loader
thats what i mean, so when you do an update you snapshot root, do the updates, if it fails you can roll back by selecting the old snapshot
and the stage 1 loader can have parameters overriden
yeah, you can probably boot off a snapshot
I think the zfs is flexible enough
might need to clone it though
sure
so it's a hard fs, not just @
Also SMF is nice -- if you've got manifests for your daemons or time to create them.
i may have to look at that for my home desktop
yes, smf is pretty cool
at least the learning curve isn't up to SELinux proportions.
Got to study that for RHCE, among other things.
the fixit shell on the DVD can invoke zfs commands
so you could clone after-the-fact
as long as you have a snapshot
then set the boot param, and finish booting
ok
might not be completely automatic or slick
but at least doable
just editing vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:zroot"
that's in my /boot/loader.conf
which the second-level boot reads
but you can override any of those settings
actually - that's already on my zfs root
sounds like chicken-n-egg :)
someone should write a Perl script to slick-ify it
maybe it boots using the previous fs, then reads that and boots to whatever it calls
opensolaris has a menu list for all your rootfs, it mouns them then boots
its apatched version of grub though
i'm unsure you can boot off a snapshot
the fbsd bootloader + zfs is very primitive
I'm not sure doing a mountfrom="zfs:tank@before-death-and-flames" would work though.
bharatak: when you submit the ticket,  include your vps UUID,  and your IPv6 subnet,  and the NS's you want the zone delegated to.
i *could* test it, but i'm terribly lazy.
jpalmer: thanks
yeah, FBSD ZFS boot is no snapshot, and only root filesystem in a pool.
bharatak: I'm active right now.  if you send a delegation request now,  you'd have it done in 10 mins.
jpalmer, i have to wait for zoneedit to update their records - or maybe i did somehting wrong
too tired, i'll try tomorrow = no rush
bharatak: well,   one way to look at it is:  right now, you have no rDNS anyway. so why wait on zoneedit to work before requesting delegation?    we can get the ARP setup now,  and it'll "just work" when zoneedit is setup.
ah
doh
i just dont know which ns# they're going to put my new zone on, i have forward zones and they each have different ns#
and I may just start running bind on my vps
if i have enough memory
gotcha.  ok.  no rush.  just figured I'd set you up now
btw:  I have to say,  I like http://dns.he.net, better than zoneedit.
i'm thinking that also - but he.net doesnt do dydns yet, though that may be a non-issue
if you run bind on your vps,  it can do DDNS..  and HE can slave the zone.
that's my thinking - but brain is failing
ok,  get some sleep!   generally speaking,  I'll work any DNS requests within 8-10 hours.
anyway to do reverse DNS with afraid.org dynamic dns?
thanks
afraid.org can do reverse
but they are not yet v6 compat
better to go with he.net
which has secondaries on 5 continents
yea,  another big plus IMO.
afraid.org also lets other people create records in your zones unless you're paying them.
... so if you were looking at them, I'd pick zoneedit instead.
free for the first 5 zones, and they'll happily slave from a master you run if you prefer.
he.net will do the same,  but free for 50 zones
ah, i'm not terribly familiar with all this, i just get my dyndns from them.