up_the_irons, mercutio: Serial access works. VNC tunneling instructions seem to have a typo, providing cons2-cust-arpnet.cust.arpnetworks.com as the host to ssh to.
But VNC tunneling (with the right host) works at least.
(Not willing to shutdown/boot for a beta test though :p)
brycec: console2 is going to replace console in the end
I figured.
mercutio: your point being that cons2-cust-arpnet.cust.arpnetworks.com is just a placeholder anyways?
yeah
oh it says hostname?
hmm
i'm not sure where it's getting that from.
i thought vnc was plain text
Establish the tunnel:
ahh found it
  ssh -f brycechidester@cons2-cust-arpnet.cust.arpnetworks.com -L 5955:kvr21.arpnetworks.com:5919 -N
check again now
thanks bryce :)
Yeah looks right now
np mercutio
Is anyone using ed25519 yet?
I have an ecdsa key normally
For recent stuff
I use ecdsa because I used to use gnome-keyring for my ssh-agent, but it doesn't yet support ed25519
Happy leap-year-day, btw
heh
my old city had an earthquake in the early morning, and people lept out of bed apparently
bringing a whole new meaning to leap day :)
oh it's your leap-year-day too now :)
this post recommends against ecdsa, for various reasons: https://stribika.github.io/2015/01/04/secure-secure-shell.html
i.e. "NIST curves suck" and "uses randomness for each signature"
is that for key or cipher?
authentication/key exchange
it was quite long :)
yep
i wonder how much stuff supports ed25519 so far
https://ianix.com/pub/ed25519-deployment.html
Asked and answered :p
i was thinking what linux's support it
and bsd et all
of course openbsd 5.8 does
i was reading something the other day about chrome using it to improve mobile performance
and that it's way faster than aes when you don't have hw acceleration
Any Linux with OpenSSH >=6.5 :p
oh it's in 6.5?
that includes ubuntu trusty even
i wonder about debian
http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-6.5   * ssh(1), sshd(8): Add support for Ed25519 as a public key type.
and centos
as much as qmail seems painful
i can't get over how smart djb appears to be.
debian wheezy had 6.0p1, jesie has 6.7p1
jessie
even if he did try to force people to install things in weird places :)
brycec: i liked the banner, but mercutio took it out, blame him ;)
brycec: i'm glad things are working for you so far
I hate to ruin this, why won't you kernel panic or something already?!?!
$ uptime
 17:18:11 up 2207 days, 12:30,  2 users,  load average: 3.23, 2.95, 2.98
$
but i think it's time to upgrade that server...  I just hate to push the power button
wow arnt you worried about applying security updates? :)
that's why i say it's time to upgrade
you don't want to shoot for 10 years? :)
@date -2207 days
6 years, 2 weeks, 3 days, 0 seconds ago. [Interpreted date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:42:17 -0800]
What a momentus Saturday that was :p
hmm that means it rebooted early in the morning
i mean not in the middle of the night
About 5am LAX time by my math
oh
hangon how do you get that
oh right
mercutio: with my brain? :P
he said the uptime hours agao :)
yeah, ~3 hours ago, so the reboot was about 15.5 before now, or 20.75-15.5