This is a collection of free and fast Anycast DNS Public resolvers (nameservers) that are available and well tested. DNS servers that are not on Anycast (e.g.: Yandex) are not included. Divided into 3 categories based on what they offer (unfiltered, “secure” dns and “family” dns), this list includes their IPv4, IPv6, DNS over TLS… Continue Reading Public DNS servers
Hi Friends! I’ve revived this site as an alternative to social media since being lost in the din of noise only leaves me feeling empty. I have things to share! Currently here I am working on some low-level software projects here to keep fresh in knowledge/practice, and formulating some ideas around my next big thing.… Continue Reading 2018 State of The Things and Context
It’s been a while since I’ve touched k8s and heard recently deployment got a lot easier then what I had been working with for the past few years with Apcera… so I had a go. I had two clusters up and running within the space of an afternoon, probably goes much faster with familiarity, but… Continue Reading Kuberetes Master + Minion on Ubuntu box
I’ve seen a lot of regarding both FFmpeg and libx264 and want to share something in regards to what does and does not work. Streaming media, at it’s core, requires three basic things;1) Constant frame rate.2) An even keyframe interval3) A bitrate based encode. Things that are really nice to have;4) Finding a better bitrate… Continue Reading FFmpeg and Libx264 – wrong ways to approach it
Hello World: Create a program that outputs “Hello World”. Loop: Create a program that loops 10 times and output the current loop (ex. “I’m on loop 6”, then “I’m on loop 7”). First Class: Create a class called “Car” that has 1 variable called “licensePlate”. Within the class, create a default constructor that sets “licensePlate”… Continue Reading A list of coding exercises to help get you from “Beginner” to “OK”
There is a very easy way to track opened TCP connections in Zabbix. Although it does not come built in to the Zabbix agent, it is simple enough to get. This method will allow you track the open number of TCP and UDP connections, as well as track TCP connections in TIME_WAIT. Rather than using grep to… Continue Reading Tracking TCP | UDP Connections in Zabbix
March 13, 2016 We went to see Bruce Springsteen last night, and what a show that was! I did not expect it to rock the house as hard as it did. Being married to a woman from New Jersey clearly influenced my casual like-that-song approach to ‘the Boss’ into becoming a more erudite appreciation of… Continue Reading Bruce Springsteen @ Oakland Coliseum
WARNING: DO NOT DO THIS IN PROD == THAT WOULD BE BAD, RAYThis is just something I just need to remind myself of from time to time. Nothing to see here… yet. As root, edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config Add a line in the Authentication section of the file that says PermitRootLogin yes Save the updated /etc/ssh/sshd_config file. Restart… Continue Reading Ubuntu: Enable root login over SSH
Centos 7 is nifty and keen, it’s likely going to be the go-to for future projects at $employer. Some odd stuff here boyo, changes in how some things are setup. When you first create a new server, there are a few configuration steps that you should take early on as part of the basic setup.… Continue Reading centos7 ssh server setup