I’ve installed Munin monitoring node on my newly rebuild server. I’ve managed to get almost everything monitored.
I had to hack bind9 plugin as original delivered name was not intended for Bind 9. I’ve downloaded bind.in and hacked it a little bit.
My bind.9 has support for IPv6 clients, views and actually works with my Gentoo installation of bind 9.
My named.conf has that logging options :
logging {
channel log_me {
syslog daemon;
severity debug;
};
category queries { log_me; };
};
If you don’t know what it is, learn Bind is the DNS
Lets say you have a dozen of servers. Lets say you connect to them very often to do some work. You have a very nice and descriptive domain for all your servers. Domain is organized nicely organized.
Now you wish to connect to one of the servers. You are typing
ssh mylovelyserver.somesubdomain.mylovelylongdomain.tld
How much do you like to type such a long address ?
Read more…
It is time to get some nice break on Tenerife Island , it is much needed after working my ass off.
Gonna see my parents there.
No computers, no stress, just one simple GPS receiver and my Nokia 770 with preloaded maps 
Yesterday I have ordered a WD3200YS disk, it’s a Western Digital RE ( RAID Edition ) 320GB disk. Today arrived.
Disk is now sitting in my MV and rebuilding volume on to it. So in 7h and 30m I will have a fully working RAID 1. I can already hear my data whisper “yes, finally we are safe from one disk failures”.
