From david at gigawatt.com  Tue Mar 21 19:46:10 2017
From: david at gigawatt.com (David Kaufman)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:46:10 -0400
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On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 9:50 PM,
William Anderson <neuro at well.com> wrote:
>
> we could bump up the spec of
> cerf. I bumped him from 512MB RAM to 1GB but he still goes into swap
> (~140MB so far, with 128MB used as cache and 76 MB free).  Going from
> 1GB / 1 core / 2TB transfer to 2GB / 2 core / 3TB transfer (not that
> we're in danger of eating our transfer) would a) keep us out of swap
> usage, b) give us an extra core, and c) get the most out of our
> generous service credit.
>
> Whatcha think folks?

Fine by me!  Like I said, we can easily afford more horsey-power!

I still feel weird running a dedicated virtual server just for DNS,
even a $5/month one!  Why not just run bind on the mail server?

I enjoy twiddling with my own DNS settings as much as the next nerd,
but (as I may have ranted previously) I also must admit that I hate
bind :-) Why not run TinyDNS on the mail server?

Or (as i also whined recently) why not just use the free web-based DNS
services offered by just about every registrar and hosting provider
nowadays?  Even DO has one!

See? I just added evolter.org!  It has every bell and whistle for
which a nerdy dns twiddler such as myself could ask:

  https://cloud.digitalocean.com/networking/domains/

I didn't point the WHOIS nameservers at it of course, (yet, but I
reserve the threat...) but like pair's, and GoDaddy's and Amazon AWS's
fine DNS editors, it is so free, and so easy and, being accessible
through Digital Ocean's admin interface it makes it much *more*
accessible to the rest of us (esp. those of us who hate bind lol)

</rant>

So I guess my point is I'd be even more All-For beefing up serf if
postel was put out to pasture...

But it's just cuz I hate bind **SO**, so very much -- if it were
running TinyDNS, I'd be all over it, probably building that node.js
web interface I've been meaning to build for just about forever now,
to replace the free EveryDNS service (that evolt used to use) for
anyone who wants one... guess that might require a bit more than 512MB
of RAM though, ya think?

PS: EveryDNS, btw, for those of you not using it for other domains,
finally shut down after evolter David Ulevitch leveraged it into the
wildly successful commercial-but-free OpenDNS service, then sold
EveryDNS to Dyn.com (who promised to keep it free forever but then
didn't) and then sold OpenDNS to CIsco, and took a VP job there.  Not
bad for just another DNS twiddler, Dave!

-dave

[ cross-posted to theForum just in case Ulevitch is still subscribed,
and to boost its monthly message volume by an order of magnitude of
infitiy ]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 9:50 PM, William Anderson <neuro at well.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 2:02 PM, David Kaufman <david at gigawatt.com> wrote:
>> Nice!
>>
>> We're gonna have to fire up like more servers just to use up this free
>> service credit in 12 months lol :-)
>
> I know, right? :) On a serious note, we could bump up the spec of
> cerf. I bumped him from 512MB RAM to 1GB but he still goes into swap
> (~140MB so far, with 128MB used as cache and 76 MB free).  Going from
> 1GB / 1 core / 2TB transfer to 2GB / 2 core / 3TB transfer (not that
> we're in danger of eating our transfer) would a) keep us out of swap
> usage, b) give us an extra core, and c) get the most out of our
> generous service credit.
>
> Whatcha think folks?
>
>> I'm thinking... an evolt Tor exit node, bitcoin node, and an
>> evolter.org anonymous VPN service!
>
> I keep forgetting we still have evolters.org ;)
>
> -n
>
>
> ----------------------------------------
> so, are we gonna get this vote on for
> the EvoltSysadmin mascot or what?

From neuro at well.com  Wed Mar 22 00:24:09 2017
From: neuro at well.com (William Anderson)
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Hey, I forgot to cc theforum too!  Jinx!

-n

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: William Anderson <neuro at well.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 12:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Sysadmin] Fwd: Here’s your DigitalOcean credit for team: evolt!
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On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 7:46 PM, David Kaufman <david at gigawatt.com> wrote:
> [ Oops forgot to cc: theForum as promised... ]

hehe

> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 9:50 PM,
> William Anderson <neuro at well.com> wrote:
>>
>> we could bump up the spec of
>> cerf. I bumped him from 512MB RAM to 1GB but he still goes into swap
>> (~140MB so far, with 128MB used as cache and 76 MB free).  Going from
>> 1GB / 1 core / 2TB transfer to 2GB / 2 core / 3TB transfer (not that
>> we're in danger of eating our transfer) would a) keep us out of swap
>> usage, b) give us an extra core, and c) get the most out of our
>> generous service credit.
>>
>> Whatcha think folks?
>
> Fine by me!  Like I said, we can easily afford more horsey-power!

Done ;)  Ooooooooh!

neuro at cerf:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       2048416     331148    1717268        424      21476      71532
-/+ buffers/cache:     238140    1810276
Swap:      8388588          0    8388588

> I still feel weird running a dedicated virtual server just for DNS,
> even a $5/month one!  Why not just run bind on the mail server?

We do run bind on cerf, which gives us a secondary  DNS server in case
postel goes off the air.  You make changes on postel, sudo service
bind9 reload, and cerf picks up the changes automagically.

> I enjoy twiddling with my own DNS settings as much as the next nerd,
> but (as I may have ranted previously) I also must admit that I hate
> bind :-) Why not run TinyDNS on the mail server?

Because bind is straightforward, an industry standard, pretty much
bulletproof, and easy to admin.

> Or (as i also whined recently) why not just use the free web-based DNS
> services offered by just about every registrar and hosting provider
> nowadays?  Even DO has one!

But it's not as portable as just copying a zone file to another server.

> But it's just cuz I hate bind **SO**, so very much -- if it were
> running TinyDNS, I'd be all over it, probably building that node.js

That's not a good reason ;)  Also, anything djb related makes my skin
crawl.  OK, maybe yours is a reasonable reason too!

> web interface I've been meaning to build for just about forever now,
> to replace the free EveryDNS service (that evolt used to use) for
> anyone who wants one... guess that might require a bit more than 512MB
> of RAM though, ya think?

Just a tad ;)

-n