November 3rd, 2008 by Gareth Llewellyn
With the initial tests over it was time to actually move over to ‘real’ IPv6 addresses.
After applying for a tunnel from SixXS it was time to set it up. Unfortunately none of my JUNOS or Cisco IOS images have IPv6 support so rather than buying another 2600XM I decided to use the Windows Server 2008 [...]
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October 15th, 2008 by Gareth Llewellyn
We already know that disabling IPv6 on a 2008 & Exchange 2007 server breaks things but what if we go IPv6 only?
IPv6 Only Domain Controllers:
The installation didn’t cause any trouble but after initially logging on and running a DCDiag we see this:
It turns out that the install of the DNS Server had set the NIC’s [...]
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October 11th, 2008 by Gareth Llewellyn
IPv6 is coming and I’m trying to stay ahead of the curve on this one so I’m moving the NAMOS LAN over to an IPv6 network [public services such as DNS, Web and mail are already running on IPv6] which means in the meantime I’m going to have to go through some of the transitional [...]
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July 30th, 2008 by Gareth Llewellyn
Well I’m back from my trip to New York and I’ve brought back a couple of things.
With the most tracks HOPE has ever had I was truly spoilt for choice but I spent most of my time [when I wasn't showing our US friends how drinking should be done] visiting talks that had potential datacenter [...]
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November 10th, 2007 by Gareth Llewellyn
The new version of Fedora is upon us, Rejoice!
Feature List
Where to get it
Update - 22/11/2007
In little under 2 weeks I’ve seeded nearly 40Gb! Ubuntu 7.10 has only seeded 33Gb and has been out for twice as long. Read into that what you will!
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May 18th, 2007 by Gareth Llewellyn
This months updates have meant that a lot of my servers now have outdated packages. Bandwidth isn’t really too much of problem when it comes to my RHEL servers as they sit on 100mbit connections in Telehouse and Texas, however all my home and office based CentOS servers sit on a mixture of 2Mbit [...]
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May 10th, 2007 by Gareth Llewellyn
Anyone travelling through Reading may have at some point seen the unsecured wireless network called NAMOS. Well thats me.
The Network isn’t totally insecure, the Access Points sit behind a Juniper NS5GT and all web / IM / mail is piped through a BlueCoat Security Appliance. I noticed that the client stats were increasing and I [...]
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