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Using the FreeIPA PKI with Puppet

James Cape — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:25:01 +0000

How to setup Puppet so it runs inside of Apache using Phusion Passenger, mod_nss, and the certificates from FreeIPA.

James Cape — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:25:18 +0000

Systems and network administrators should always make sure they aren't spared the typical user experience.

James Cape — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:00:41 +0000

The complete configuration necessary to implement anycast DNS using Cisco IP SLA, though it's a little weird without the background.

James Cape — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:00:30 +0000

For internal anycast services, it doesn't really matter if it's using TCP or UDP, so long as your routing protocol fails over quickly.

James Cape — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:00:55 +0000

For internal services, you probably want to have them fail over between sites. Dynamic routing protocols will let you do that.

James Cape — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 20:34:58 +0000

If you use a loopback interface for your service, you can share the IP address between two different servers, even on the same LAN.

James Cape — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:37:04 +0000

A nifty hack that's possible in IP networks is the ability to share an IP between servers thousands of miles apart.

James Cape — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:00:47 +0000

Anycasting is a way to scale geographically by having multiple servers sharing the same IP address.

James Cape — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 04:28:23 +0000

As it turns out, GNOME Shell is only a problem if you want to fuss with your desktop rather than use it.

James Cape — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:34:55 +0000

My experiences using Google Apps for my e-mail