Em7 ad naseum

I decided it was time to finally retire my old web server. It was several releases behind (O/S and web server both) and kind of a pain to try and keep up to date. Plus, it's been so long since I set up a Drupal installation that I suspected that I might not remember how to do it correctly. (I was right.) So now, it's running from Fedora 12 inside of VirtualBox instead of from Fedora 8 inside of a computer I found in my friend Sarah's trunk.

When you see emails in the queue from <smith@ghfgghfghfghfghcghdcghghfghfghcfghfhfghfghfghfghghhfhfhfgfgh.com> one might be understandably suspicious about whether that's a legitimate domain name or not.

Turns out...

Yosemite can't copy our DNS backups into a test server because it has a different name. That's quality program design right there.

So here's a helpful set of three commands that does exactly that:

Ah, it's once again virus season here in Canada. It appears that Conficker has been making the rounds again too. From February, we saw a pretty good mix of Conficker and Bredolab variants here at the LW mothership:

147 Conficker.gen (Worm)
 58 Bredolab.BZ (Trojan)
 55 UPX packed executable file
 33 Bredolab.QR_2 (Trojan)
 29 Bredolab.CE_2 (Trojan)
 12 EggDrop.AAM (Trojan)
  9 Bredolab.SMF (Trojan)
  5 Pif.VF (Trojan)
  4 Merond.AA_2 (Worm)
  4 Bredolab.AG (Trojan)
  4 Banker.NA (Phish)
  2 Suspicious#fakeav_2 (Trojan)
  2 Pay-23 (Phishing)
  2 Bank-87 (HTML.Phishing)

At midnight on Sunday night, the boss and I headed out to hit the datacenter in time for the maintenance window. 8 hours later, the network latency went from 60-100ms down to <1ms. And that's without bringing in any new equipment.

The main lesson learned here is that even though the ProCurve 3400cl switch does support layer-3 routing, under no circumstances should you ever use it. It sucks and it's slow. If you have anything beyond the most infinitesimal amount of routed traffic, you will make that unit sweat like R. Kelly at a Girl Scout troop meeting.