A new year, a new website! In truth, although I had a nice new server upgrade it seems that Trac just keeps on using resource after resource. Now, having the site entirely python powered isn’t entirely possible- thus far I have yet to find a reasonable email web interface other than RoundCube Also, my PostgreSQL interface of choice uses PHP. Speaking of PostgreSQL, that kind of limits my blogging software choices as most of them only want to use MySQL, which I have no wish to use.
So dhcpcd in my git repo has had DHCPv6 support for some time now and I’ll do a new release soon so it can get some testing. This is a major wooooo, as I only have a few RFC’s for specific options I want to implement (such as NTP) and then we’re golden. The only other big change I have planned for 6.0 it so seperate IPv4 foo from dhcpcd.c- hopefully giving it a proper namespace and moving to more TAILQ.
It’s been an eventful two years of not blogging. Mainly as I got heavily involved in playing World of Warcrat, Star Wars: The Old Republic and now Guild Wars 2 and this is a technical blog not a gaming one.
Anyhoo, since GW2 is a lot more casual than the others the idea is that I have more time for working on open source stuff, like say dhcpcd. Well, I finally found some time over the past few months and put DHCPv6 INFORM support into dhcpcd.
Wow, not blogged for over two years. There’s the advent of social media for you. Anyhoo, I had a massive server failure so apologies for the downtime.
However, we’re now back! Currently powered by a Shuttle XS35
I took the moment to install NetBSD-6.0RC1 on it with a current snapshot of pkgsrc. The NetBSD-6 install kernel got the disk sizes wrong, but a NetBSD-5 install kernel gets it right. The downside is that the-5 kernel won’t PXE install correctly whereas the-6 kernel will.
I’ve upgraded to trac-0.12 and all the plugins to the latest available. Everything still seems to work :)
I’ve also ditched OpenID for the time being as some spammers were still getting through. I still have trouble getting the AccountManager trac plugin to work well, so I’ve gone back to the trac spam filter plugin, with captcha support enabled. We’ll see how this works.
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