Author Archives: independence

Issue Tracker (removed)

Posted on May 9, 2008 by independence

I have now set up an issue tracker for Blinkenshell. This is a system for handling support issues and similar. Most support stuff is currently taken care of on IRC, and I’d like to keep it that way. It’s usually … Continue reading →

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Wiki – Userpages

Posted on April 25, 2008 by independence

I made a little script that extracts some info from the signup database and imports it into userpages on the wiki, so now almost everyone has a userpage on the wiki. Also, it’s possible to log in to the wiki … Continue reading →

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Proxy scan

Posted on April 22, 2008 by independence

Blinkenshells IRCd now scans all connecting clients for open proxies using BOPM. This is to prevent abuse from users connecting via proxys and thereby evading bans etc. If you’re noticing some strangs messages in your firewall log or similar when … Continue reading →

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WordPress 2.5 on Blinkenshell

Posted on April 16, 2008 by independence

Users have reported some problems upgrading WordPress from 2.4 -> 2.5 on Blinkenshell. The problem seems to be that the upgrade script requires a lot of memory, more than the limit at Blinkenshell. Normally you can change this in your … Continue reading →

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Network down

Posted on February 25, 2008 by independence

As you probably noticed, Titan’s internet connection has been down for almost the entire weekend. After a powerfailure this Saturday some of my ISP’s equipment died, and since they don’t work on weekends we had to wait until today to … Continue reading →

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Reboot

Posted on February 22, 2008 by independence

There was a poweroutage at 04.01AM this morning, it was long enough to force the server to shut down after the UPS ran out of power. When I woke up I used this opportunity to put some more RAM into … Continue reading →

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Blinkenshell Paid Service

Posted on February 19, 2008 by independence

I’ve been thinking of setting up another server for Blinkenshell to host paid accounts. This would be a more professional server, hosted in a dedicated datacenter with redundant Internet connections, 10/100Mbit/s, UPS, backup diesel power generators and so on. I’m … Continue reading →

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Linux Local Root Exploit

Posted on February 11, 2008 by independence

There was news about a Local Root Exploit for Linux 2.6 on Slashdot yesterday. It’s pretty serious, and it affects most of the recent 2.6 kernels from what I can gather, up to kernel 2.6.24.2 which is patched against this … Continue reading →

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DOS Attack

Posted on February 8, 2008 by independence

Blinkenshell was once again target for a DOS attack, this time I had to change IP because the attacker was a bit persistant. DNS records are updated to the new IP, and should not be in any caches anymore. However, … Continue reading →

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Ident DDoS

Posted on January 28, 2008 by independence

You may have noticed that the shell server was a bit slow last night, this is because someone launched a DDoS attack on the server, more specifically the ident daemon. The network was down or very slow between 03-04, but … Continue reading →

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