Just a short update… I know I haven’t posted anything in quite a while, but I hope to get back into the habit of doing so… or even making daily posts like I had wanted.

1. The truck that was totaled has been replaced with a newer, nicer one.
2. I …

Well, I’ve spend the better part of the last week or so debugging a problem with out new Xen VMs (on one host) not getting DHCP leases. Since our DHCP servers (ISC DHCPd 3.0.6) are using Brian Masney’s LDAP patch (which has recently been included in …

Recently at $WORK we’ve been having some strange issues with a particular Xen VM not getting DHCP. Traditional (tail -f dhcpd.log) debugging hasn’t turned up much, other than the server is getting the DISCOVER but not sending out an OFFER. I’ve turned to packet captures to …

I needed a better solution for Dynamic DNS than dyndns.org for something, so I set about setting up DDNS through my BIND9 servers. I found a number of very helpful blog posts, including nsupdate: Painless Dynamic DNS, Painless DDNS part 2: the server, Secure dynamic DNS howto and A …

At $WORK, the subnet we use for some of our workstations and test boxes was only recently setup with DHCP. Previously, we’d used IP-by-Whiteboard in the office. As a result, most of the recent machines use DHCP, but there are a few older ones still around using static …

Two weeks ago, I wrote about the Brother HL-2170W that I got for my mother. It seemed absolutely wonderful. Until the night of March 31st, just before Conficker was supposed to strike. Being that mom’s computer is the only one at home running Windows, I finished up a …