LaForge's home page (Posts about knf)https://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/tags/knf.atom2022-06-21T07:49:57ZHarald WelteNikolaNew gnumonks.org mail server onlinehttps://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20040229-servermoved/2004-02-29T03:00:00+01:002004-02-29T03:00:00+01:00Harald Welte<p>
Recently I pointed out that I'm about to move my personal mail away from KNF.
The new server ganesha.gnumonks.org is now co-located at <a href="http://www.noris.net/">noris.net</a>, where netfilter.org is hosted, too.
The netfilter and gnumonks machines are within a private VLAN, with a dedicated
firewall in front of them.
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Putting that machine in place turned out to be come much more difficult than
expected. It seems that Intel recently decided to give their e100/e1000 chips
new PCI device ID's, which in turn means that old (e.g. Debian woody install
kernels ) Linux drivers don't recognize them. So in the end I had to install
SuSE into a swap partition and debootstrap the system from there. *sigh*.
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Thanks to the noris.net crew for their assistance, I know they spent way too
much time with me considering I bought their smallest entry-level housing
product.
</p>moving gnumonks.org mail/web/ftp serverhttps://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20040214-movingserver/2004-02-14T03:00:00+01:002004-02-14T03:00:00+01:00Harald Welte<p>
After being hosted in the basement of my former office, connected via an SDSL
line to <a href="http://www.franken.de/">KNF</a>, I have now made the decision
to move my mail/web/ftp server to a commercial hosting center.
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Connectivity behind that old line was becoming increasingly unreliable due to
various problems at the University of Erlangen, which is part of my upstream
routing path.
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Unfortunately the old gnumonks.org machines are all desktop/mini-tower systems,
so I now have to buy an expensive 19" 2U server. It will be hosted at <a href="http://noris.net/">noris network</a>, where the netfilter.org machines
are hosted, too.
</p>Started using fedora legacyhttps://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20031229-fedoralegacy/2003-12-29T03:00:00+01:002003-12-29T03:00:00+01:00Harald Welte<p>
Since RedHat decided to discontinue RedHat Linux, I've migrated almost all the remaining RedHat and Conectiva Linux boxes to Debian.
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However, I didn't migrate the <a href="http://news.franken.de/>news%20server</a>%0Ayet,%20since%20this%20is%20quite%20a%20big%20task%20to%20do,%20and%20not%20very%20easily%20done%20-%20at%20least%0Anot%20as%20long%20as%20you%20don't%20want%20to%20loose%20all%20of%20your%20news%20spool.%20%20%0A</p>%0A<p>%0ASo%20I%20started%20using%20<a%20href=" http:>Fedora Legacy</a> as
a means for installing security updates for the discontinued RedHat. Works
like a charm, and I send many kudos to those volunteers who set this up in a
very short time.
</p>KNF blog section startedhttps://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20031204-start/2003-12-04T03:00:00+01:002003-12-04T03:00:00+01:00Harald Welte<p>
I'm planning to drop here some notes about my work at <a href="http://www.franken.de">KNF</a>, a non-for-profit Internet organization
based in my old home town <a href="http://www.nuernberg.de/">Nuernberg</a>.
Despite not living there anymore, I'm still doing sysadmin for them, especially
maintaining our large <a href="http://news.franken.de/">usenet server</a>.
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