Hi all,
I've inherited a system which has an Adaptec 2420SA RAID controller and 4x SSDs running in RAID6.
There's no end to problems experienced with this setup; a disk seems to time out and get ejected
from the controller at least every week. It's not always the same disk though, and I've tried
replacing each of the SSDs with their spares, to no avail.
Is there any known issue with using SSDs in hardware RAID that I've overlooked? Performance isn't
*that* much of an issue, since it's only running Apache + mod_perl and a ~100GB MySQL database.
Any thoughts appreciated
Thanks,
Hannah
Hi All,
when I do
dig somedomain.org
I get:
; <<>> DiG 9.8.4-rpz2+rl005.12-P1 <<>> somedomain.org
;; global options: +cmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
What is the "no servers" that could not be reached??
If I do
dig greenwareit.com.au
it works fine.
Both somedomain.org and greenwareit (and 3 other domains) are on the
same dns server.
somedomain.org is registered with namecheap.com. Any one has domain
registered with them? (not my choice)
Cheers
Daniel.
From: "Sean Crosby" <richardnixonshead(a)gmail.com>
> Hi Peter,
>
> I think your problem is that glue records for your domain do not exist in
> the zone file for the DNS servers for id.au
Thanks.
> I think you need to contact your domain registrar to add
> ns.gonglenuts.id.au as a glue record in the id.au namespace,
I assumed that would happen when I can specify NS server and IP address in
the administrative interface of the domain registrar.
In a second step I wanted to experiment with some DNSSEC and PGP key via
DNS related stuff so I thought "control as much as possible by myself"
would be good.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wouters-dane-openpgp-02
Here a bit more background:
https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/feedback-review/advancing-dane…
I wanted to point at this but I cannot find anything of same content in
English (this link is German):
http://www.heise.de/netze/meldung/DANE-disruptiv-Authentifizierte-OpenPGP-S…
> or you can
> set your primary DNS server as something with an address outside the
> gonglenuts.id.au domain.
Yes, that's plan B.
Ages ago I had these external addresses (an ISP) as primary sources but
they were configured to act as a slave to a DNS server I was running.
That way I avoided these constant: "Can you make a change in our domain"
calls.
I wonder who could do this.
Also, DENIC in Germany asked for at least two nameservers in two different
locations but that does not seem to be a requirement here?
Thanks for help
Peter
Hi Daniel,
did you figure out your problem?
I made, just for fun, an experiment to get an own nameserver up and
running (I did not run a _public_ one for ages).
The nameserver is up and running, I see it in whois but it does not get
propagated.
Here in detail:
http://www.whoismydomain.com.au/whois/gonglenuts.id.au
Domain Name: gonglenuts.id.au
Last Modified: 01-Jul-2014 02:03:45 UTC
Registrar ID: WAR
Registrar Name: Web Address Registration
Status: inactive
Registrant: Peter Ross
Eligibility Type: Other
..
Name Server: ns.gonglenuts.id.au
Name Server IP: 115.186.196.107
On the nameserver itself runs a bind 9.10.
The zone file:
$TTL 3h
@ IN SOA ns.gonglenuts.id.au. root.ns ( 2014073001 1d 12h 1w 3h )
; Serial, Refresh, Retry, Expire, Neg. cache TTL
@ IN NS ns.gongelnuts.id.au.
ns IN A 115.186.196.107
You can wuery the server, it returns SOA, NS and A records.. but if you
query "the Internet" it returns:
$ nslookup
> set type=SOA
> gonglenuts.id.au
Server: 192.168.50.223
Address: 192.168.50.223#53
** server can't find gonglenuts.id.au: NXDOMAIN
I do not know what I did wrong.
While writing this, I noticed this whois line
"Status: inactive"
But I do not know why it is. The domain is registered, setup and paid.
It was a bit low on my priority list over the last weeks (it is a
"playground project") but I still would like to sort it out one day..
Regards
Peter
From: "Daniel Jitnah" <djitnah(a)greenwareit.com.au>
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> did you figure out your problem?
>
> I cheated. The domain registrar in question provides its own dns
> hosting server. I used it. But I did not want at first because it has
> limitations like no mx record - but for now thats not an issue.
>
> In the past I did setup my own server, but have found it easier to use
> xname.org. They are free but can be slow to propagate and update.
Okay, I will have a look at this too. Thanks.
> You seem to be using an internal IP (192.168...)
> Is your router allowing DNS port through and redirecting to
> 192.168.50.223?
The not-working nslookup was using my internal company DNS server which is
forwarding to a provider. That's not an issue.
I get the same "not found" on any other DNS server.
What I wanted to illustrate: The nameserver itself (ns.gonglenuts.id.au on
115.186.196.107) is up and running - but it does not get propagated.
You can query it yourself:
$ nslookup
> server 115.186.196.107
Default server: 115.186.196.107
Address: 115.186.196.107#53
> ns.gonglenuts.id.au
Server: 115.186.196.107
Address: 115.186.196.107#53
Name: ns.gonglenuts.id.au
Address: 115.186.196.107
> How long has it been on for? could be it is still propagating. It can
> take over 24 hrs sometimes.
I set it up weeks ago.
> Check:
>
> Did you create an A record for gonglenuts.id.au?
Yes (see request above, and also in my zone file below).
> This is my zonefile for greenwareIT on xname.org:
>
> $TTL 600 ; Default TTL
> greenwareit.com.au. IN SOA ns0.xname.org. danyj028.gmail.com. (
> 2014073101 ; serial
> 600 ; Refresh period
> 600 ; Retry interval
> 604800 ; Expire time
> 10800 ; Negative caching TTL
> )
>
> $ORIGIN greenwareit.com.au.
> IN NS ns2.xname.org.
> IN NS ns1.xname.org.
> IN NS ns0.xname.org.
> IN MX 10 mx.greenwareit.com.au.
> git999 IN A 60.241.200.146
> shop IN A 60.241.200.146
> greenwareit.com.au. IN A 111.67.23.208
> www IN A 111.67.23.208
> git09 IN A 111.67.23.208
> mx IN A 60.241.200.146
> www2 IN A 103.25.56.140
It is similar to mine, I think (of cause my is shorter)
>> $TTL 3h
>> @ IN SOA ns.gonglenuts.id.au. root.ns ( 2014073001 1d 12h 1w 3h )
>> ; Serial, Refresh, Retry, Expire, Neg. cache TTL
>>
>> @ IN NS ns.gongelnuts.id.au.
>>
>> ns IN A 115.186.196.107
Regards
Peter
Hi,
With the current Ubuntu LTS as both host and guest for LXC I'm missing
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I found some people on the internet mumbling about creating
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Please note, this is a separate issue to needing to add the permission
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On 24 Jul 2014, at 18:32, James Harper <james(a)ejbdigital.com.au> wrote:
> What brand/model are the SSD's? We just had two Samsung SSD's fail pretty much simultaneously (within the replacement window, so it took the machine down). Presumably it was wearout, although all post-mortem testing we did shows no problems with them and the limited SMART capability they possessed said everything was fine.
They are Plextor M5 Pro drives. The controller doesn't even seem to pass SMART through, other than to query on it's own and give either "OK" or not
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