Warning: It’s possible that there are good traffic-analysis-resistance reasons why the Tor Project haven’t enabled the option below by default. If you rely on Tor in a hostile network or territory, I can’t recommend setting the option discussed below without doing additional research. As an addendum to my recent post about running an IPv6-only network, I wanted to share some things I learned recently about connecting to Tor from an IPv6-only host. By default, Tor will hang at the bootst...| Posts on Alex Haydock
So it looks like Hacker News found my No NAT November post from a few days ago. I’m really glad to see from the comments that it seems to have spawned quite a bit of discussion. But aside from all that nice constructive networking discussion there were a few posts that I, as a (mostly) self-respecting sysadmin just couldn’t ignore: Uh oh… I was originally hosting this blog using GitHub Pages, which worked very nicely. GitHub serve their Pages content via the Fastly CDN. It would chew th...| Posts on Alex Haydock
I recently found myself in a situation where I needed to read a ZFS-formatted drive, but with only a Windows machine to-hand. Now I could walk across the room and simply grab a device running a more penguin-oriented operating system. But that’s no fun. So I decided the optimal course of action would be to spend the afternoon learning about WSL internals and recompiling the Linux kernel several times until I had the drive working directly on Windows. With some minor effort, it’s definitely...| Posts on Alex Haydock
I’ve recently been playing with using Ubuntu’s autoinstall feature to reinstall a few Ubuntu Desktop machines. It has what I think is a very user-friendly flow so I thought I’d write a bit about it.| blog.infected.systems
If you are reading this message, the experiment below is still ongoing. This page was served to you by a real Nintendo Wii.| blog.infected.systems
I’ve been on a bit of a journey recently related to IPv6-only networking, and wanted to share a fix I had to apply to smooth out the experience on Apple devices. If you’ve deployed an IPv6-only or IPv6-mostly network and you find your Apple devices waking from sleep and reporting that their network connectivity has broken, this is probably the same problem you’re seeing. I wanted to write about my solution for this bug since I’ve seen a few people mention being affected by it but have...| Posts on Alex Haydock
As part of my recent adventure running an IPv6-only network for a month, I ended up setting up a full IPv6-mostly home router setup using OpenBSD.| blog.infected.systems
Hi, I’m Alex. Welcome to my new home on the web!| blog.infected.systems
Day 0: Challenge accepted| blog.infected.systems