Ok, one of our pfSense in Production just did it again, greet me with a friendly “Unable to check for updates”. My first suspect was DNS again, but after checking all resolvers can resolve the firmware.netgate.com domain without any issue. Next Step to try was in cli if the Package manager itself became a zombie or stuck somewhere. What is interesting is that it gave a response that was not expected. ...
Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. I’m a fan of pfSense. If you use it too, you may noticed the recent change in recommended local domain names from previously *.local into *.home.arpa, here is the relevant redmine entry. The topic has also been discussed here and there recently, which is a good thing. ...
Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Recently I moved from my old PI3B to an Intel NUC i3 as my “Home Server”. It has enough power to run all my local services and is still not wasteful in terms of power consumption and space requirement like a “real” Server, and it is fanless. ...
Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. There are several reasons, the most important one is that my old domain got some big hit and “Negative” Backlinks over the many past years. The old Domain solariz.de was registered more then 20 Years ago, in this Time I did a lot of changes on the Domain, CMS, files I hosted and so on. Those gave me a lot of different Backlinks from all over the World – you might think Backlinks are a great thing. ...
Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Translation This original post is written in german 🇩🇪, a rough Translation: SOPA/PIPA are like Germany’s “Zugangserschwerungsgesetz,” but broader. SOPA targets copyright enforcement with DNS blocks, bans US companies from doing business with blacklisted sites, forces Google/Facebook actions, and can jail violators up to 5 years. In short, it’s censorship of the open internet, misunderstood especially by many 50+ users. ...