Twitter: @thatfleminggent

  • Really should use a templating engine for Meisha's website.. 21 hrs ago
  • Flicking some DNS zones around. #powerdns gsqlite3 backend really doesn't like apostrophes in TXT RRs :-P 1 day ago
  • "Firefox: It Won't Make Your Missus Puke" should be the next Mozilla slogan :-) 2 days ago
  • Questions With Obvious Answers Number 65535: Asking a sysadmin on a Friday afternoon if he wants a beer. 2 days ago
  • I hope rebirth really exists so my network administrator spends the next several lifetimes as a telemarketer. Thatll teach him. 2 days ago
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I’m IPv6 ready - are you?

Firstly for those wondering about Courier-IMAP / authlib / maildrop+authlib packages for Leonidas:  I’ve built them successfully - only a minor adjustment needed after all that -  and it’s available in the usual place. Enjoy, and let me know if there’s any bugs / issues.
(For a change I managed to get them out the door [...]

This is why I’m not a “webmaster”

In an effort to help my girlfriends website generate a bit of traffic  - and some business for her - I’ve spent a bit of time (probably a little too much for a holidaying techie, but it’s a “love job”) trying to get my head around more indepth search engine optimisation and Google Analytics [...]

No IPv6 :-(

Folks,
It seems my IPv6 routed range and tunnel have been offline for the best part of the week. I’ve tried multiple times to rebuild it and that part of it’s fine - but once it hits the other end of the tunnel, no route to any host.
So it looks like my tunnel broker, he.net (Hurricane [...]

Joomla and SELinux and IPv6, oh my!

No monkeys though, which is a good thing.
I’ve had IPv6 up and running for a little while now, however only today have I got the necessary DNS records in place - thanks Atul!
Ergo, all of you IPv6-enabled peeps should now see me from 2001::-land (it’s full of colons! :-))
[mfleming@qbert ~]$ dig -t ANY +short www.enlartenment.com203.8.189.1002001:470:1f01:2800:250:8dff:fe54:9197
I [...]

IPv6 Day…

[mfleming@defender mfleming]$ traceroute6 ipv6.he.nettraceroute to ipv6.he.net (3ffe:81d0:ffff::3), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 qbert.enlartenment.com (2001:470:1f01:2800:250:8dff:fe54:9197) 4.244 ms 0.083 ms 0.086 ms 2 tunnel-local.enlartenment.com (2001:470:1f01:ffff::1518) 204.009 ms 214.444 ms 220.150 ms 3 tunnel-remote.enlartenment.com (2001:470:1f01:ffff::1518)(H!) 3225.042 ms * *
Whoops!
Hurry up Hurricane Electric! [...]