Monday, February 16, 2004

A better design for a web server

We're about to order a new web server, so I've been thinking about new (better?) ways of setting up a large web server environment.

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Wednesday, February 11, 2004

IPv6 (aka IPng)

Russell, Vhata and I spoke the other day about Rhodes getting a proper IPv6 test up and running. Well today I took the bull by its horns and got Jacot to put his signature at the bottom of my application for a /48 assignment.

The application form was faxed off to TENET this afternoon. I've got no idea how long they take, etc. In the mean time, we have an IPv6 enabled firewall and DNS server. We have to run reverse as a condition of the application - see http://www.tenet.ac.za/IPv6_assignment_Policies_v1-0.htm

I suspect at the end of the day some IANA assignment is now going to list me as the technical contact :)

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Monday, February 09, 2004

Firewalls and VRRP

I'm playing with the idea of using the virtual router redundancy protocol on Rhodes' firewall to give us a redundant route out to Tenet.

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Sunday, February 08, 2004

Residence Networking

There is lots of crap to write about resnet. At the top of my head at the moment is that I've worked out how to MAC lock machines to IPs.

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Exim Mail Transfer Agent

"I like it, a lot"

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Rhodes as a Certificate Authority

So I had this idea that Rhodes should become a certificate authority. We need a chained CA certificate, and then I can sign people's SMIME certificates and stuff.

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Small services

There is a great need on campus for redunancy of "small" services. By small I mean simple, easy, but critical things such as DNS, DHCP and WINS. They're little things that can break a lot when they're missing.

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