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We answer a bunch of your questions about firewalls, best practices for backups, learning ZFS, QoS, SSH key management, backing up Google Drive, and more.

 

Links to things mentioned

Unix Haters Handbook

Allan’s FreeBSD Journal Article

Dummynet: The Better Way to Build FreeBSD Networks

Jim’s ZFS 101

Allan’s book

 

Plugs

Customizing FreeBSD Ports and Packages

All Things Open

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Thousands of students learn about backups the hard way, why securing all of DNS isn’t practical, and how to protect Internet-facing services running at home.

 

News

Victoria University of Wellington accidentally nukes files on all desktop PCs

Root Server Operators’ Statement on DNS Encryption [pdf]

 

 

 

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Our first look at the next generation of Arm, alarming claims about a recent Ubiquiti breach, and setting up a FreeBSD file server.

 

Plugs

Customizing the FreeBSD Kernel

Check out Joe’s albums

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News

Containerize all the things! Arm v9 takes security seriously

ARM Morello

Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”

 

Free consulting

We were asked about setting up a first FreeBSD file server.

 

 

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How we’ll get to 100TB hard disks by the end of the decade, the potential dangers of flipped bits in network traffic, how to organize multiple copies of your backups, and managing dynamic DNS.

 

Plugs

Understanding Network Performance

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News

Seagate: 100TB HDDs Due in 2030, Multi-Actuator Drives to Become Common

Toshiba’s disk drive: WTF is the flux control effect?

Bitflips when PCs try to reach windows.com: What could possibly go wrong?

 

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We were asked about how to ensure data integrity on multiple backups, and managing dynamic DNS.

 

 

 

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The OVH data center fire and related tales, drama with WireGuard in FreeBSD, why you should plug your flash drives in regularly, and more.

 

News

OVH data centre destroyed by fire in Strasbourg

OVH outlines recovery plan as French data centres smoulder

OVH founder says UPS fixed up day before blaze is early suspect as source of data centre destruction

Hard lessons learned from the OVH datacenter blaze

In-kernel WireGuard is on its way to FreeBSD and the pfSense router

Painful Lessons Learned in Security and Community

FreeBSD kernel-mode WireGuard moves forward out-of-tree

 

Feedback

Mitigating bitrot with checksums, and why flash isn’t any good as cold storage.

 

 

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Why it’s so hard to build a PC these days, finding help for ZFS issues, getting started with a homebrew router, and more.

 

Plugs

The history of ARM and FreeBSD

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Discussion

We talk about why it’s so hard to find PC parts and peripherals at the moment. Jim wrote an article about buying a gaming PC.

 

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We were asked about how to get help with ZFS issues, encrypting the root partition on ZFS, and how to get started with a homebrew router.

 

 

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Why hard disks will be around for ever, bad news for VR, slowdown from disk I/O, and when clustering isn’t necessarily the best solution.

 

Plugs

Register for Open Source 101

OpenZFS: dRAID is coming

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News

Seagate: Why SSDs will not kill disk drives

Google Cardboard is no longer for sale

 

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We were asked about I/O wait on Linux, and clustering Linux machines.

 

 

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Where we draw the line when supporting friends and family, monitoring SSL certs, ZFS on single drives, Chromium finally cleans up its act, and more in this feedback-filled episode.

 

Feedback

Chromium finally fixes its DNS issue, a Samba AD server called Zentyal, firewalls, Unraid and SnapRAID, xCloud, and Nagios plugins.

 

Free consulting

We were asked about ZFS on single drives, and how best to support enthusiastic amateur friends. Jim mentioned Sanoid.

 

 

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Bad news for LastPass users, why Nvidia probably won’t buy Arm, what happens to our servers if we disappear, and using the cloud to avoid bottlenecks.

 

Plugs

FreeBSD Jails – The beginning of Containers

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News

Changes to LastPass Free

Nvidia wants to buy CPU designer Arm—Qualcomm is not happy about it

 

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We were asked about bus factor mitigation, and caching data from a home server in the cloud.

 

 

 

Linode

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Stadia and game streaming, Bitcoin and Linux quirks in your feedback, and building a home server for more than just storage.

 

Plugs

Simple and Secure VPN in FreeBSD – Introducing WireGuard

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News/discussion

Focusing on Stadia’s future as a platform, and winding down SG&E

 

Feedback

Follow-up on Bitcoin, and historical quirks of Linux.

 

Free Consulting

We were asked about the best way to build a genral-purpose home server.

 

 

Linode

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