You can set a name and still use an IP. host=$IP and menu=$name 21:17:23 ⤷ | because often you want to use names rather than ip's. eg: ++++HEtserv3fmt2v4 host = 72.52.104.74 menu = tserv3.fmt2 title = Fremont, CA, US (tserv3.fmt2 72.52.104.74) And yes, I had those particular probes using DNS lookups, so if DNS wasn't even resolving, gaps. Which is the definition for https://smokeping.cobryce.com/?target=Internet.HENet.NorthAmerica.HEtserv3fmt2v4 i'd like to reference by name and have it do a dns lookup on config load or something i dunno, for things like google it remaps things at diff times but async dns is kind of a pita i wonder what fping is doing Do not retry twice DNS lookup on DNS lookup problem hmm i wonder if that would help that was changed in may last year version 3.10 src/options.h:#define DNS_TIMEOUT 1000 /* time in micro_sec for dns retry */ just reducing that could help too i wonder if youi can set from command line oh nothing seems to reference it :/ yeah it's just doing gethostbyname so it's not even doing saync the easiest solution may be to run something else before it that does async lookup on all of the names what about adns/adnshost? think i got something http://weallsee.net/asyncdnsfping hackish, buut calls adnshost then fping i have too much 2.4Ghz in my flat trying to have 2.4 wifi, bluetooth, coordless phones, wireless mice/keyboard all using the same spectrum, it gets messy have got 5GHz wifi, but only a few things use it looking at spectrum analysers, in combination from scatter noise from neighbouring wifi, there is absolutely no clear airspace in the 13 channel scope even cross-over channels are being used as some AP's primary soon as one or more statiosn start saturating 50mbps over 2.4GHz, it sends my bluetooth audio system awack yeah, it isn't helpful that lots of ISPs' modems started including a wlan radio and most don't educate their customers about that so they go and buy another router, and have the secured (not in use) modem wlan network as well as their new router all crowding stuff up have hidden my 2.4GHz away in a cupboard so it doesn't see other wifi's as easy (perfectly located to cover the flat too) - but it still crosstalks a lot and can see differences in wifi to wifi transfers at different times would go ac, but only have a single device with capability 5Ghz has about 7 APs i can pick up 2.4 there are about 20 the biggest problem with 2.4 is people using 40 mhz in built up areas. i think 2.4 shoudl shift to 10 mhz if everyone's gong to use it but who wants to buy a router with slower wifi by default? no one especially when 5Ghz is becoming the norm yeah i'm actually wondering about 5ghz+lte :/ like the most annoying thing i find is when i go to the letterbox my wireless drops and it can't carry over to 3g when using skype but my cordless phone cuts outt too oh, maybe sticking wireles higher up would go down hill better, hmm.. grody: cordless phones are 1.8 ghz here, are you sure yours are 2.4 ? It's likely that grody's phones are DECT, which has its own band at 1880-1900MHz. It would be unusual to have phones at 2.4 plett there may be some that do 2.4? cordless phones, microwaves its a well known problem mercutio: 2.4 is an unlicenced ISM band, so it's possible that there are phones using it, but it would be very unlikely in the UK. I can't speak for the rest of the world though And I have used some quite horrible 802.11b SIP wifi phones in the past which would have been in 2.4 my sip phones are dect and there are two, because otherwise i have battery issues i still wish they had bettery passive battery life, like when waiting for a call i also have sip on my cellphone, so i can voip from anywhere :) but lots of people i know are shifting off voip to just straight cellphone I also have SIP DECT phones here. The next step is to get people to call the SIP number rather than the actual landline can't you just put the landline nuumber on the voip? I have an ATA on the landline which does that. But porting the number out to a SIP provider would be problematic for the DSL that I have on the line oh here we have "naked" dsl which is dsl without landline The only people who ever call the landline are my mum and my wife's parents. It can't be too much work to get them to update their address books :) i don't have any landline anymore maybe unplug the phone and they'll get hte mesage? i assume you've given them the new number Not yet, they don't like change that much ahh Also it's not really a problem, the same set of handsets ring when either number is called i think it is kind of complicated here too ahh and you have to port landline numbers to get "non-weird" looking numbers. ie, i have one in a city where all the numbers are 3/9 and i have a 7 err start with a 3 or 9 the 9s were alternate providers, dunno where the 7 came from :) Kind of the same here too, but there are enough providers with allocations that people are used to numbers beginning with all sorts of digits ahh cool when i was a kid i kind of knew where all the different number blocks were location wise. and i thought it nifty that numbers would be in area/region so you could tell where somebody was generally but with voip you have no idea :) Only the area code has geographic significance here any more. I think numbers inside an area code used to be allocated to particular exchanges or subsection of the exchange, but that went away when exchanges went digital about 20 years ago After that it was just a single pool of numbers that could be routed anywhere oh ok they've been saying they'll go digital for 20+ years here but atm you can't actually port a landline between area codes. so you move from one house to another in a different suburb you hvae to change numbers. That's what she said!! well unless you go voip You can't port between area codes here either. But these days you'd port it out to voip if you wanted to keep the old number like the exchanges themselves can't handle having foreign numbers, but the systems that route to the exchanges can. well voip is the future i suppose My view is that "telephone numbers" will be about as relevant in 5 years time as fax machines are now heh when i first got my phone connected i had to send them a fax i haven't sent a fax since that was like 15 years ago Yeah it's so much easier to get phone lines etc now but i was surpriseda bout how much of a pita it was back then, and it's not even that far back There is so much pointless red tape and regulation involved in calls to/from the PSTN here, it's pretty much impossible for a new company to enter the market and be competitive i think it's nifty on voip when it tells you who's ringing you i love that feature like not just caller id, but caller name and not just from a phone book, but passed through from the provider. So I am expecting people to just go around the regulators by not using phone numbers, SIP URIs instead, or facebook names, or whatever well i'm just as happy to use skype as voip and certain subsections of people skype is really taking off for like people with relatives in other countries it's huge with Yep actually i think most younger people have access to it esaily now, i was trying to think of older people because that's more difficult. just got a new printer that has an ssl enabled web interface trying to get my wildcard cert installed on there it says it needs a pkcs #12 encoded file all of my attempts to encode that file have failed it doesn't just use cloudprint? maybe try google web interface for configuration wondering how I can test my pfx bundle i got a cheap fancy printer, and i haven't used it in ages. but i was surprised how far they'd come with interfaces etc. but the printer tray sucked :) and i managed to jam it with hardly using it. my pfx loads fine into windows cert manager but the printer won't accept it why do you need https to config it? mismatch of accepted keysize or something it switches to ssl when entering address book entries automatically for the scan to email function oh it still works with invalid ssl and all sorts of warnings i found scanning more of a pita than printing I tried adding the cert it was using to my trusted certs, but it has a different common name on its cert so still invalid updating firmware on my head unit and radio integration dingus is a little funny got the printer ssl working. Ended up generating a self signed cert and encoding that to the pkcs #12 pfx no valid ssl cert for arpnetworks website? https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=support.arpnetworks.com dont think thats intended to be ssl since its hosted at tenderapp see https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=graphs.arpnetworks.com&latest so were supposed to send/read our account creds & VNC/serial console creds in the clear ? ssl is pretty much free these days thats under portal which is ssl ah well there you go i guess its only the cookie for support that get sent in the clear, once you have already authed with portal (have not verified that, but i assume thats how it works) appears that way you're safe accepting it, it's registered to tenderapp there really needs to be better stuff for deciding who to accept like spf records support is mostly about articles telling you how to do stuff hey support's ssl is perfectly secure.. nothing to sory about heh SSL 2, which is obsolete and insecure/insecure Diffie-Hellman (DH) key exchange parameters/supports 512-bit export suites and might be vulnerable to the FREAK attack/vulnerable to the POODLE attack/vulnerable to MITM attacks because it supports insecure renegotiation LS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5 (0x4) WEAK oh how common are mitm attacks really? you know the browser should just remember if a site has used more secure ssl before and if it downgrades in security alert the user depends what network you are using at the time i guess :) i think there's moce chance of something like paypal being spoofed with a "valid" certificate if mitm attacks are done, i'm sure it'll be to try and make money or for political reasons it's not going to be to try and get the password of some vps i imagine people doing this on public wifi etc would be oppotunistic and get whatever they can oh public wifi i didn't think of that i thought of dns injection attacks etc it's more that it's easier to bruteforce rather than trivial isn't it? i dont bother to find out, i just fix my ssl certs so they get A+ rating i should use my secure cert i've been using cloudflare's one i don't even know how that works like how can they give away free ssl certs? also restrict cipher suites available for use in apache maybe support.arpnetworks.com should be on cloudflare would make problem look like it's gone away :) the link from the portal is still non ssl support doesn't support https because it's using tender mnathani_: the link to support? it'd still allow ntt to do something weird yea but it would atke away wifi issues link to support i actually kind of like cloudflare now i feel dirty saying that where i work, everything is ssl by default mercutio: https://blog.cloudflare.com/universal-ssl-encryption-all-the-way-to-the-origin-for-free/ i mean there are things that i don't agree wtih, like hosting both their nameservers in the same location but generally it seems to work well m0unds: that wouldn't work you dont need cloudflare to fix an ssl problem as it's supplying tender's ssl cert actually yeah so it's not even on their netowrk network that was the wrong link, haha i'm too lazy to find it again heh there was a post from someone at cloudflare outlining the cost part of it anyway, the big question is: does it matter? doubt it i rarely use public wifi, and if i'm forced to for some reason, i use a vpn ok it takes a few hours to break doesn't mitigate weak cipher selection or whatever, but open public networks are cesspools anyway and the rsa cert stays the same until you restart apache it's worse than i thoguht it was https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-universal-ssl/ is the link m0unds referred to, I believe why wouldnt you just upgrade to a new/strong ssl cert and fix apache? heh you dont know where customers will access your https site from mjp, arp doesn't host it i was saying so it's not possible for them to only to suggest it be done started getting packet loss again must have just been a blip, i'm able to connect again. bleck. weird i've never had any issues connecting i had a brief issue earlier today on smokeping, but it didn't look like it was related to arp as multiple sites had issues at once Strangely enough, my ssh session dumped me out (and I just noticed :p) my computer crashed this morning while i was asleep it's weird because it always crashes when i'm not around and X just shows the time it crashed (along with all the windows) with no kernel messsages :( but it also means i can't see if any of my ssh sessions died lol it's happened like 3 times in the last week or something, and used to always be stable. i imagine it's zfs related because i have git zfs actually it looks like 5 times in 3 days brycec: yeah, mine dropped and kitty chimed at me while i was doing something else otherwise i wouldn't have noticed oh is this an "active" shell rather than an idle shell? ie following irc etc that can sometimes time out easier with loss That's what she said!! whereas nat timeouts more affect idle clients Yes, an active SSH session, at least as active as ServerAlive* and TCPKeepAlive, as well as frequently updating screen content. (It's an ssh session that never dies on its own). I have ServerAlive* set to 5*60, so that was 3 minutes without a server response to a keepalive message. :/ i don't set any of that stuff and my ssh sessions don't die but yeah that means too many resends ie severe loss have you noticed when you have a lossy connection that sometimes pressing an extra key can speed it up and echo the earlier key? active can often speed up recovery brycec: did you see my fping script? dunno what you think of it, kind of hackish :) http://weallsee.net/asyncdnsfping or https it can probably be done cleaner but that should prefeed dns cache