I thought its high time I get to spend some time with IPv6 so I signed up for a static tunnel from sixxs.net, apart from taking some time it’s a fairly painless process to get going. I chose a static tunnel since I am just 9ms from one of their brokers and my machine is Read More
Previously I wrote about RPMs I built to GeoIP enable Bind using the original patches at http://www.caraytech.com/geodns/. I have now refreshed this for the latest CentOS 5.3, the details of the patch, install instructions etc has not changed, read the previous article I wrote for the details, the new RPMs are below: NOTE: When you Read More
CentOS 5.3 was released on the 1st of April, I’ve since updated a whole lot of my machines to this version and been very happy. There are a few gotchas, mostly well covered in the release notes, the only other odd thing I found was that /etc/snmp/snmpd.options has now moved to /etc/sysconfig/snmpd.options ditto for snmptrapd.options. Read More
Today on freshmeat I noticed 2 useful utilities for anyone running Xen Servers. The first is called Virt-top it is a easier to read top like tool than xm top that shows all virtual machines memory and CPU usage in a nice display including totals etc: The other – Virt-P2V – it’s a CD Image Read More
For some time the default clock rate on RedHat machines (and probably others) have been 1000HZ, this is great to keep your mouse moving smooth while something big is happening in the background, but not so great for hosting 10 virtual machines on one poor physical machine as it will have to try and satisfy Read More
